Dean Whitbread

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National Trust Sounds Project

National Trust: The Album. Beautiful - and free.

One of the world's most respected musicians has created an album with the Trust, comprising of British natural sounds including birdsong, crashing waves and wind breezing through a country garden.

Jarvis Cocker, best known as the former front man for the band Pulp, has worked with us to produce a soundtrack of some of our places across England, Northern Ireland and Wales. 

The 33-minute recording titled National Trust: The Album takes the listener on an audio journey around Britain from the sounds of lapping of waves against the shores of Brownsea Island in Dorset to birdsong at Belton House in Lincolnshire and the sounds of gardeners at work at Powis Castle in Powys.

(Hat tip to RobdaBank)

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Can You Identify This Bird Call?

Ornithologists and naturalists - your help gratefully received. I am trying to determine a species of bird which has recently shown up in Islington, London.

It calls at 9 seconds into this recording, louder and lower pitched than all the other (presumably smaller) birds and it has a decending "cho-cho-cho-cho-cho-cho-cho-cho" eight notes. Sometimes the call can last twenty or thirty seconds, and there are long gaps between the calls.

Map reference here - http://bit.ly/mysterybird. If you click the placemark it's also linked to audio.

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