Hear the Desert Come Alive with Birdsong During a Spring Shower
It isn't just parched plants that welcome the rejuvenating rain.
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Transcript:
This is BirdNote.
A light April rain falls in the Anza-Borrego Desert, in southeast California. Cacti and wildflowers glisten with raindrops, and birds begin to sing.
The sweet, jumbled notes of a House Finch rise above the sound of the rain. A Bewick’s Wren buzzes then breaks into exuberant song.
A Cactus Wren joins the chorus, standing atop a barrel cactus, calling gruffly . . .
A Costa’s Hummingbird hovers at a cactus blossom, beating the air with thrumming wings. A Mourning Dove coos.
Spring rains rejuvenate the desert.
Sounds for today’s BirdNote were recorded by Gordon Hempton of . You’ll find a link to his work on . I’m Michael Stein.
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Credits:
Written by Bob Sundstrom
Narrator: Michael Stein
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer: Chris Peterson
Sounds of the desert recorded at Anza Borrego Desert State Park [California] by Gordon Hempton, soundtracker.com. Featured call of Morning Dove provided by Macaulay Library at Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, recorded by W.R. Fish.
© 2015 Tune In to Nature.org May 2017