Birdcasting: A Podcast Done By The San Fernando Hill Bird Choir

In the morning, I awake to sounds like these - but these are the sounds of the afternoon, signaling the end of the bird work day here in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago.

The Kiskedee is unmistakable for anyone who has seen it - the young blue gene (blue tanager) is bursting into song now and then, the bananaquits twitter in the background, a tropical mockingbird sings a soliloquy, a plaintain (yellow oriole?) drops in a few notes, the palm tanagers provide vocal support in long silent periods...

In the background, the ending of traffic leaving San Fernando goes away.

At the end of the day - and it is coming toward the end of the day - this is refreshing to listen to. And to awake in the morning with more energetic song... well, that's another recording.

This is why my father and I have the fruit trees, and though I often hear people say at the fence, "eh-eh, dey have fruit on de groun'", you just can't buy what these birds have. In 20 years, you won't hear them because of the development, so you could say I recorded this for posterity.

A short, 1.83 megabyte version of an important part of my world. Not your average podcast