Appreciate the natural sounds of a Colorado backyard.
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Episode photograph: Marek Uliasz / Alamy (Storm cloud over Fort Collins, Colorado)
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Transcript
Welcome to Ambient Colorado. I’m Martin Burch.
Today … a new perspective on a familiar, domestic landscape … as we listen very closely to a northern Colorado backyard.
Our recording equipment makes it easier to be a patient, quiet listener … revealing ever-present details which can be easily missed.
When most people are still asleep … a whole bush full of House Sparrows are waking up and chatting away in the pre-dawn light … as sprinklers water the garden.
Later … we get close enough to touch the black-capped chickadees eating from a bird