Enquiring Ear

Field recording and found sounds

Tag: Somerset

  • Mechanical Wind Pump at Ham Wall

    Mechanical wind pump at RSPB Ham Wall
    Mechanical wind pump at RSPB Ham Wall

    terrific rasping sound from this mechanical wind pump – a slow turning sail drives a reciprocating water pump directly. The clunk is probably OK but that rasp could use some grease

  • Hornets at RSPB Swell Wood

    I visited the Heron Hide at RSPB Swell Wood. There wasn’t much to see at the time, but I became aware of a disconcerting buzz. That didn’t sound like your average bee or wasp.

    I saw some inch-long insects and figured it was time to beat it PDQ. Not gonna argue with these bad guys.

    Olympus LS14 XY

  • Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff counterpoint

    I love the sound of willow warblers, for a long time I had only heard them in Scotland, where they aren’t so fussy about willow. When I lived in Suffolk I heard them very rarely.

    Somerset has plenty of willow on the Levels, and it has a good number of Willow Warblers with their lovely liquid song. Here one seems to be duking it out for territory with a Chaffinch