The Quest for Common Pochard

In this, the seventh episode of Wild Bird Acoustics, we follow my quest to record an elusive duck species, Common Pochard. My eventual aim was to field record the species remarkable courtship display, you can follow that journey in the first section of this podcast.  Apart from discussing the challenges of locating and recording this elusive species, I share several other bird recordings captured during these outings, such as the amazing calls of Northern Goshawk, a displaying Little Grebe, singing Goldcrest, and Eurasian Jay mimicking other species' calls. Following this initial section, I will take you to the Stockholm Archipelago in late autumn, on a rather special day in November, when all the stars aligned and I managed some wonderful audio of some rather special Swedish bird species....00:20 Introduction to Wild Bird Acoustics00:35 The Quest for Common Pochard01:22 The Challenges of locating breeding Common Pochard03:40 The final piece of the Jigsaw; Common Pochard's Courtship Display04:55 Another Journey to Norra Djurgarden05:06 The Encounter with Common Pochard06:40 Other Encounters: Coot and Little Grebe08:43 The Successful Recording of Common Pochard23:04 A Surprise Encounter with Northern Goshawk31:16 The Final Recordings and Reflections32:20 Preview of the Next Episode: Autumn in Landsort33:20 The Field Magazine: A Day in Landsort33:40 The Search for Spotted Nutcracker34:24 Encounters with Bohemian Waxwing and Northern Bullfinch47:26 Success! An audio recording of Spotted Nutcracker...53:08 Conclusion and Call to ActionLeave a comment here....Support the showSubscibe to Wild Bird Acoustics here;https://wildbirdacoustics.buzzsprout.comLots more audio related material here at my long running website;https://blogbirder.blogspot.com/