birds and ship over spring river Maas Netherlands 0654 am 240509_0711

Inland vessel passing by. Early spring morning in May at lake Lithse Ham along the river Maas in the Netherlands.

The deep droning engine sound of a barge some 250 meters away, as in this recording, can sound overwhelmingly loud.
This phenomenon of loud low noise, you hear especially in these almost windless situations, when the tones slowly blow with the wind. It then seems as if the entire outdoor space fills with the relatively soft sound.
Furthermore, you hear a lot of birds; Common Cuckoo, Red-neck Grebe, Common Shelduck, Egyptian Goose, Eurasian Coot, Common Chiffchaff, Blackbird, Common Tern. Indeed it is spring.

Birds detected by Merlin Bird ID app (ver. 3.6.1 (220 – 2024);
Birds detected by BirdNET-Analyser (GUI ver. 2.1.0 Model ver. V2.4);
#4:15 Common Kingfisher
#0:39 Common Shelduck
#0:00 Common Tern
#4:15 Dunnock
#0:24 #1:03 #2:53 #4:06 #4:47 #5:21 #5:42 Egyptian Goose
#0:24 #0:44 #1:24 #2:57 #5:39 Greylag Goose
#1:39 #1:54 #2:27 #3:39 Great Whitethroat
#0:37 #0:49 #1:02 #1:32 #1:52 #2:02 #2:47 #2:57 #3:19 #3:48 #4:10 #5:08 #5:36 #5:54 Eurasian Coot
#0:58 #1:01 #1:13 #1:24 #1:33 #1:49 #2:02 Eurasian Wren
#0:28 #0:35 #1:13 #1:22 #1:29 #1:54 #2:54 #3:09 #3:19 #3:30 #3:46 #3:54 #4:24 #4:31 #5:31 #5:44 Eurasian Blackbird
#1:13 #1:53 #1:53 #4:01 #4:46 #5:23 Common Cuckoo
#0:09 #0:55 #1:16 #1:25 #2:35 #3:21 #3:32 #5:21 Willow Warbler
#1:00 #3:39 #4:57 Carrion Crow
#0:23 #0:40 #1:08 #1:51 #2:16 #3:18 #4:14 #4:25 Common Whitethroat
#2:28 #2:52 #3:03 #3:12 #3:45 #3:52 #4:07 Common Chiffchaff
#3:45 #3:55 Canada Goose
#0:40 #3:29 Pied Wagtail / White Wagtail
#2:34 barn Swallow

More here today / More at this location trough the years

Date/time: Ascension Day Thursday May 9 Monday 2024, 6:54 AM

Weather: 10 - 16, sun, wind NNE - N 2-5 km/h, 1028 hPa.m, humidity 93%, dew point 7c, visibility 4 -6 km. Mic pointed NW 300 degree

Location; Lake ‘Lithse Ham’, Maren-Kessel, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands (Holland), Europe. Geotag 51.80372 5.39254 (reference)

Gear chain: Sennheiser mkh30/50 MS, in Rycote cyclone small, windjammer > Sound Devices 302 >Tascam dr-100 Mk2. Noise floor 35 dBA. Decoded Mid-side to STEREO.

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