Dueling wood thrushes

[asakiyume]

Yesterday at dusk, two wood thrushes were competing to see who could claim to have the best voice in the darkening trees:

Watch on YouTube

After listening, I closed my eyes a while, then opened them, and the sun was rising.



That's life in the land of hours and days!

Comments

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Is that what makes that wonderful song? I have often wondered, while listening to them echo through the woods. Thank you!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes! One of my favorites, along with the hermit thrush, for songs.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

How beautiful - the sunlight speckling the dark forest. I like the sun peeking through the trees, like wild Venetian blinds.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like, how, in the photo, there seems to be no *ground*--just dark water or sky or something, with sparkles in it.

ETA

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Never mind--it turns out I uploaded the picture upside down, of all things! D'oh!

So now I'm going to fix it and fix this entry... it may not seem quite so otherworldly when I do that.

Re: ETA

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

It makes so much more sense now that it's right side up! But it did lose a bit of its otherworldliness.

[sovay]

That's life in the land of hours and days!

As opposed to life in the summer without time?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

As opposed to life in a place where time and season are experienced in some different way--maybe lands of summer or lands of dawn, say, but maybe some other thing--lands maybe lands where summer or dusk or whatever flood in, given certain conditions, and then leach out, or... that sort of thing. As opposed to the sedimentary layerings of time we get in this land here.

[88greenthumb.livejournal.com]

Love your "life in the land of hours and days." Love your "land of hours and days," as well.

BTW, I finally saw something similar to the "Prince" of which you talked about and had a photo and a sketch in earlier posts. Yes, with my own two eyes, and up close! I met quite a number of them in the marshy lake up in the mountains a few weekends ago. Lovely bright red wings on black. Although I didn't hear what sound they made, I thought of you each time one of them flitted by. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So happy about the red-winged blackbirds! I saw one today too, reigning over some cattails in a drainage area by a shopping mall. A little bit of royalty and grass in a place dominated mainly by asphalt.

[duccio.livejournal.com]

...competing to see who could claim to have the best voice in the darkening trees:

You do.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Now wouldn't that be wonderful :-)

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Such beautiful song. Thank you for sharing.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! I love their song so much, and last night the two of them were going at it so fast and furiously.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

That picture is incredible.

I woke up to torrents of rain.
I thought I'd take a picture of lightning by leaving the exposure on for five seconds and waiting. Nope. Maybe if it was 10:00 instead of 6:00...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I don't know *how* people manage to photograph lightning. If you do ever get a good shot, be sure to post it.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I didn't get any lightning, but today, the sky seemed way bigger than it should be and I took a picture of Zeus flipping the bird on us pathetic humans, an Eagle Nebula of clouds, and a bird silhouetted against the gray sky...
... I think I need to leave right now, though.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

today, the sky seemed way bigger than it should be and I took a picture of Zeus flipping the bird on us pathetic humans, an Eagle Nebula of clouds, and a bird silhouetted against the gray sky.

***awesome***

We had a thunderstorm in the late afternoon, and I was biking afterward, and there was a rainbow haze hovering just above the hill ridge, on the dark gray clouds.

... I didn't have my camera, though.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

All the good moments happen when you don't have a camera on hand.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I think that is a duel that must have ended in a tie. They are both lovely. :D

:P Took me a minute to notice the sun is "upside" down.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Is that what it is! I put the picture in upside down! Well that explains why it looks like sky down in the ground area.

LOL, what a mixup. I'll have to correct that.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

ROFL

I thought it was maybe a reflection in water. :P

[dudeshoes.livejournal.com]

How do you do these lovely recordings? Do you have a smart phone?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

No, actually, it's that my camera has the capability to make short videos, with sound. Not very high quality, but when the sound is as clear and good as these two were, then it does a fair job.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, those birds sound as lovely as is that shot of the sun in the trees!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

They're one of my favorite songbirds ♥

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the Second Best Wood Thrush in the Woods is spending the day dreaming of having another crack at the crown tonight...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know if he mounts a challenge this evening.

[deponti.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, just what I liked! :))))))

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So glad ♥

[inspirethoughts.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I just posted about dueling swords and I see yours about dueling wood thrushes. What a coincidence. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That *is* a fun coincidence! Now the question is, Is the sword mightier than the song, or vice versa?

[inspirethoughts.livejournal.com]

Definitely Song. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Then warn your fencing instructor to beware going into the woods at dusk!

[inspirethoughts.livejournal.com]

He he he. :)

[galestorm.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous song, thank you so much for posting it!!! I shared it to Fbook and G+, saying, 'Well worth a listen to two wood thrushes thrushing it out :-)'

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hahaha: thrushing it out--that's great :D

I'm so pleased you shared it!

[larryhammer]

There were very close cousins of those wood thrushes in the campground at Mesa Verde last month. Many more than two of them, actually.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

All the thrushes have lovely voices and songs.

(Still haven't come back to read the story-through-poems in that entry of yours, but still intending to...)

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! I use an Ambiance alarm to wake me up these days, and can set it to a bunch of different bird sounds - the best is waking up to that and then hearing birds from the kitchen when I coming downstairs. Have never learned to identify them though!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

We're lucky now that you can get song recordings, often, on websites that tell about the various birds. Of course, that doesn't help if it's just the song you've heard but you don't have a face to go with it....

[domparisien.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So glad you liked. You must get wood thrushes and hermit thrushes up your way, too.

[domparisien.livejournal.com]

Well, not so much here. I live near the downtown area of Montreal. The park in front of the apartment is quite big, though, and there are often red-shouldered blackbirds. And ducks - always ducks.