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Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Take a One Minute Audio Vacation to Spain
Can't quite make it Tenerife, but this recording (MP3 1MB) made at the Campo del Principe, a park in Granada in Andalucia, Spain, nevertheless - if you extract the humans to leave just the birds singing - will bring you a good way towards hearing the type of sounds I live with daily here in the El Palmar valley and, as it is, reflects the sounds of almost any plaza of the archipelago
Well, the truth is, had I made a recording here over the last few days, it would have been of an almost non-stop pneumatic drill, where the local council has been demolishing the roof (ready to replace it) on one of the municipal water tanks that are at the bottom of my garden, but today the council workers seem to be taking one of their extremely regular days off and the birdsong is, once again, mostly only punctuated by the occasional barking dog or passing vehicle.
There has been one little brown chappie, flitting between the durasno tree that overhangs the patio and the nearby quince tree, shouting his head off for hours. How he doesn't get laryngitis, I'll never know. How he hasn't gotten himself killed is equally puzzling, because I've been stood out there no more than four feet away from him, with the dog on a lead and five cats winding round our legs and, what did our little birdie do? He hopped onto a closer branch! Incredible!
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