Posted in Australia, In Nature: on Feb 14th, 2011
Australian bush summer dawn chorus by Listening Earth
It is getting on for late summer, and the dawn chorus around our home is thinning out – it is still rich, but not as diverse or layered as even a few weeks ago.
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Posted in Australia, In Nature: on Feb 7th, 2011
In recent years, we have occasionally seen Square-tailed Kites cruising over the forest around our home. This has captured our attention because not only are they rare birds for our area, but they’re magnificent and graceful on the wing; quite large raptors with long wings, distinctly fingered primaries, and pale heads.
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Posted in Cultural, India, Sarah's Photography, Travel on Feb 3rd, 2011
Although our work is about all things natural, I thought I would share a few of my ‘people’ images. These images were taken in 2006 during our last trip to India.
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Posted in Australia, In Nature:, Macro photography, Sarah's Photography on Feb 2nd, 2011
The Jewel and the Golden Orb spiders are two of the more common we have in the forest out the back of our place.
The last couple of weeks the bush has been booby trapped with their webs – when I have been walking or bike riding I often come back veiled in cobwebs.
So, in the [...]
Posted in In Nature:, Technical Talk, Turkey on Jan 26th, 2011
Robin on my Microphone by Listening Earth
Often I leave my microphones ambiently recording in the forest, mounted on a tripod. I go off exploring, leaving the mics and the birdlife alone for a while.
It is only later when I listen back to the recording that I find out what adventures my microphones have had [...]
Posted in Australia, In Nature: on Jan 18th, 2011
Pied Butcherbird singing at dawn, Darwin, NT by Listening Earth
We recently received an email from a listener asking whether we had any recordings of Pied Butcherbirds from ‘up north’.
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Posted in Australia, In Nature:, Listening on Dec 13th, 2010
Saraband for a Butcherbird – Mark de Brito by Listening Earth
Transcribing birdsong to musical notation is problematic, if not well-nigh impossible. Birdsong is just too sonically complex.
However the songs of some species do lend themselves to musical interpretation, and the sublime melodic phrases of Australia’s Pied Butcherbird have long fascinated musicians.
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Posted in Australia, In Nature:, Macro photography, Sarah's Photography, Wildflowers on Nov 6th, 2010
I was out early again this morning with my macro lens, this time looking for one of my favourite spring wildflowers - the fair and lovely Milkmaids (Burchardia umbellata). I found them dotted throughout a damp gully on our property, well protected and catching the first rays of the morning sun. They are a member [...]
Posted in Australia, In Nature:, Macro photography, Sarah's Photography, Wildflowers on Nov 5th, 2010
After 13 years of drought, we have had a wonderfully wet winter. One of the things I have been looking forward to is the bounty of spring and summer orchids in the bush on our property.
I have been out early today with my new 100mm macro lens to photograph the delicate Brown-clubbed Spider Orchids, (Caladenia [...]
Posted in Australia, In Nature: on Oct 28th, 2010
Chattering song of a Noisy Friarbird by Listening Earth
By no stretch of the imagination could Noisy Friarbirds, Philemon corniculatus, be described as beautiful birds. Even their mothers would have to say they were ugly.
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