GREIFSWALDER OIE - III

May 2009
In early Spring I was at the isle Greifswalder Oie for the third time. It was a
different situation as in Autumn, only a few birds were migrating. So I had enough
time for single individuals, studying their fragmentary (incomplete) songs “on the
road”.

This year Germanys Club 300 started a campaign to research Common Chiffchaff
Phylloscopus collybita calls. So I had one ear on this topic in spring.

Furthermore I wanted to record some Sub– and Plastic Songs.

090510, Common Chiffchaff, calls and plastic song, Greifswalder Oie, Germany

090510, Lesser Whitethroat, plastic song, Greifswalder Oie, Germany
-> at the same area where the V2 rockets were tested during the World War II.

With two colleagues I realised two Concerts in October 2009 with the topic:
system-change. For this event I´d record sites at Greifwalder Oie with a military
history in context of it´s recent usage. I correlated the short intervals of human use
and the constant migration of birds through the whole year.

To my surprise I woke up by a singing Nightingale Thrush Luscinia luscinia in the
morning. So I picked up my recording stuff, but unfortunately the bird stopped
singing shortly after my arrival there.

090510, Barn Swallow, song, Greifswalder Oie, Germany
-> in it´s breeding colony inside a former military bunker.

090510, Thrush Nightingale, song, Greifswalder Oie, Germany - 1

090510, Thrush Nightingale, song, Greifswalder Oie, Germany - 2