Mountain Brook Nightscape - with Barred Owls

About this episode

Lang Elliott captures the haunting calls of Barred Owls during a midnight camping experience in Shindagin Hollow.

Mountain Brook Nightscape - July 2, 2002, around midnight. Shindagin Hollow near Brooktondale, New York. Recorded by Lang Elliott. Please listen using headphones! In early July, I camp at the bottom of Shinagin Hollow in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, a short distance from a small mountain brook. Around midnight, I am awakened by a distant Barred Owl that screams and hoots from the other side of the hollow. Other owls soon join in. The concert continues for over fifteen minutes, finally ending with a lone owl giving a slow-paced series of simple who-awl calls before disappearing into the night. I soon fall back asleep, once again surrendering to the soothing, everlasting gurgle of the brook.

People in this episode

Host: Lang Elliott

Topics covered

• Barred Owls
• nature sounds
• nightscape
• camping
• Finger Lakes

Keywords

• owl calls
• nature recording
• midnight sounds
• camping experience

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Mountain Brook Nightscape, Mountain Brook, Shindagin Hollow, Brooktondale, New York, Shinagin Hollow, Finger Lakes, Upstate New York

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