Hello Friends, I captured a video of the Robin humming in our crabapple tree yesterday morning. You have to turn the volume up to hear his song over the wind noise. If you look closely, you can see his throat rising and falling as he hums his song. I also included a recording of me reading the essay. I am considering adding a recording to every essay for those who would rather listen than read.
Thank you for the video. I appreciate the word “humming” as it creates an interest I might not have had if you’d said “singing”.
Also… recording your posts is an excellent addition to what you already do. I recently heard about a study of “feel good” versus stress hormones in the body. People who communicate via voice rather than texts experience higher levels of feel-good and less stress.
I am reminding myself to use my actual voice more. 😁
Thank you for this one, Bill. Of all the birds I know, it’s the Robin’s song that sounds the most like happiness to me. I never knew that sometimes they hum! I feel the video and audio narratives add layers of life to your storytelling—more layers of sincerity and realness. I’m sure your readers will be humming along!
This is wonderful to know about. I believe I would recognize that as the sound of a robin. But I bet I would have missed that it was this robin that was humming!
I can say that I have heard both stellar blue jays and large black crows 'whispering' on separate occasions. In each case there were a group of birds low in a tree and the whispering was very quiet vocalizing for either of these birds, who are usually so loud. With the blue jays there was also a sort of quiet hissing going on. I did not get the impression that either group was feeling threatened or agitated. More like they were just keeping something to themselves.
Bill, this is such a Sunday gift. I highly prefer listening to Substacks over reading them. I don’t like reading on my phone. I do an audio for my posts each week, and I keep it really simple. It’s usually a one take deal with laughter and background noise. Folks still seem to like it. Happy Sunday!
Yes! “Humming” That’s the sound the crippled robin I rescued, and kept for ten years, made every morning. But he’d only “hum” when nobody was in the vicinity of his cage. I would wake up to that humming song every morning. Thank you for clarifying that contented robin sound.
Happy sigh. Beautiful. (We have gently warbling magpies that probably fall into your definition of ‘humming’. Such happy, contented sounds. Makes the heart sing. Thanks so much for sharing.)
Thank you for the video. I appreciate the word “humming” as it creates an interest I might not have had if you’d said “singing”.
Also… recording your posts is an excellent addition to what you already do. I recently heard about a study of “feel good” versus stress hormones in the body. People who communicate via voice rather than texts experience higher levels of feel-good and less stress.
I am reminding myself to use my actual voice more. 😁
Thank you for this one, Bill. Of all the birds I know, it’s the Robin’s song that sounds the most like happiness to me. I never knew that sometimes they hum! I feel the video and audio narratives add layers of life to your storytelling—more layers of sincerity and realness. I’m sure your readers will be humming along!
This is wonderful to know about. I believe I would recognize that as the sound of a robin. But I bet I would have missed that it was this robin that was humming!
I can say that I have heard both stellar blue jays and large black crows 'whispering' on separate occasions. In each case there were a group of birds low in a tree and the whispering was very quiet vocalizing for either of these birds, who are usually so loud. With the blue jays there was also a sort of quiet hissing going on. I did not get the impression that either group was feeling threatened or agitated. More like they were just keeping something to themselves.
Thank you so much for recording the robin's hum. It brings me so much joy.
My cat really perked up at this humming! As do I. Here, in Flagstaff , AZ, tthe birds are announcing snow.
Bill, this is such a Sunday gift. I highly prefer listening to Substacks over reading them. I don’t like reading on my phone. I do an audio for my posts each week, and I keep it really simple. It’s usually a one take deal with laughter and background noise. Folks still seem to like it. Happy Sunday!
So soft and beautiful! Thank you for recording and sharing.
Yes! “Humming” That’s the sound the crippled robin I rescued, and kept for ten years, made every morning. But he’d only “hum” when nobody was in the vicinity of his cage. I would wake up to that humming song every morning. Thank you for clarifying that contented robin sound.
This is wonderful!!
Something I never knew... how many other people had their ears right up to their laptops this morning?!
A little bit of magic to start the day
That certainly made my day!! Thank you! There’s always something new to learn.
Thank you for this. Such a sweet bit of loveliness to my day.
Great idea.
Happy sigh. Beautiful. (We have gently warbling magpies that probably fall into your definition of ‘humming’. Such happy, contented sounds. Makes the heart sing. Thanks so much for sharing.)