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Yosemite in Fall – With John Muir
By Chris Peterson
This is BirdNote!
[Winds blowing in Yosemite + calls of Mountain Chickadees]
In Yosemite, October winds begin to blow, making music with drying leaves and seed pods. [Sound break] Acorn Woodpeckers, [tapping of Acorn Woodpecker] Clark’s Nutcrackers, Mountain Chickadees, and Red-breasted Nuthatches know it’s time to stock the larder! [Calls of Clark’s Nutcrackers and chatter of Red-breasted Nuthatches]
Yet for us, there’s still time to enjoy a hike [bring in footsteps] before the harshness of winter… [Introduce stream and hiker]
Walk with me and hear what John Muir wrote in 1901. [On the path…]
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. [Calls of Mountain Chickadees] Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. [Stream] The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy [mountain winds with seed pod rattles], while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” *
Many of the sounds today were recorded by Gordon Hempton and provided courtesy of QuietPlanet.com. The bird sounds are from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
For BirdNote, I’m Michael Stein.
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The soundscape[s] featured in today’s show were recorded by Gordon Hempton and provided courtesy of QuietPlanet.com. Mountain wind with seed pod rattles; moderate stream Nature’s Essentials SFX 105.
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Call of Mountain Chickadee [106638] recorded by R.S. Little; chatter of Red-breasted Nuthatch [110378] W.L. Hershberger; call of Clark’s Nutcracker [99363] by R.S. Little; tapping of Acorn Woodpecker [165358] by D.L.Ross.
BirdNote’s theme music was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer: Chris Peterson
© 2015 Tune In to Nature.org October 2013/2017/2019 Narrator: Michael Stein
ID# yosemite-01-2013-10-15yosemite-01
Quotations of John Muir - Writings - The John Muir Exhibit - Sierra Club Quotations of John Muir – the John Muir Exhibit – Sierra Club Our National Parks, 1901, p 56.