Thrushes

Grouse

Redwing

Blackbird

Mistle Thrush and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Capercaillie lek

Mistle Thrush

Song Thrush

Black Grouse and Raven

Black Grouse and Common Crane

Black Grouse lekking

This has been my nemesis bird. For three years I have been trying to record its song and today it happened. I was out in the forest to set up a hide for the Capercaillie lek in advance (will start in one month's time) when I flushed a hazel grouse. In the recording you will hear the contact call the first minute together with lekking black grouse in the distance. After one minute it starts to sing. In the end of the recording you will hear some kind of sub-song of the hazel grouse. Don't know if this has been recorded before. Other birds in the recording are mistle thrush, skylark, jay, raven, coal tit, crested tit, great tit and more. Älgpussen, Uppland. March 19, 2023.

Hazel Grouse in song, finally!

This is my secret mire where I go in April each year to enjoy the Black Grouse lek. This year with a very nice Mistle Thrush as guest artist.

Huddunge, Uppsala. April 2, 2025.
Zoom F3 + Clippy EM272 as tree ears.

Black Grouse lek and Mistle Thrush song

Field sound recordist and archivist of vanishing sounds in natural Iandscapes. Highly commended in the Sound of the Year Awards 2024 - Best Natural Sound.

Black Grouse lek and Mistle Thrush song

Bo Söderström