Opal Day Use Area, Part 1

About this episode

The episode discusses the benefits of roadside birding locations and features sounds from Columbian Ground Squirrels.

One thing I’ve learned from years of birding is not to ignore a good roadside birding location. It often seems counterintuitive to me as a sound recordist — I do want to be away from traffic sounds, of course. But often roadside stops consist of edge habitats that songbirds love to occupy. And, also in this case, Columbian Ground Squirrels. You’ll hear them in this episode, but I wasn’t aware they were called Colombian Ground Squirrels at the time. Credits Songbirding: Kananaskis Country is a Songbirding Studios production. Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter. The Songbirding cover art (Townsend's Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062 Creative Commons music is from Bluedot Sessions. Learn how to support the show at https://songbirding.com/support

People in this episode

Host: Rob Porter

Topics covered

• birding
• roadside habitats
• Columbian Ground Squirrels
• sound recording
• nature

Keywords

• birding
• Columbian Ground Squirrels
• roadside habitats
• sound recording
• nature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Songbirding Studios, Bluedot Sessions

Places: Opal Day Use Area, Kananaskis Country

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