A new set of nature sound recordings from Myślibórz Wielki is out now — This is the first time when there’s not a bird, a shadow of a bird, or even a single feather. The set of recordings has a strangely low bird-to-minute ratio. Most of the time on Forst Rieth is occupied by rain and crickets, and even with a very summery storm…

A new set of recordings from my backyard is out today — Both my current apartment and my family home are located in a place with roses in their name (Rose Street or Rose Creek area), but until this year I could see redstarts only on Rose Street, in the city center. …

With temperatures dropping and sunlight becoming less and less available — This weekend I finally managed to participate in a horseback archery competition. As I started a weekend gardening course my weekend availability decreased significantly, and it’s only due to schedule change that I’ve been able to participate. A week before there had been the final round of the regional horseback…

A new set of recordings from Ujście Warty Nature Reserve is available now — Finally now in October, there’s the time to publish what was recorded back in May. I’ve described the field recording trip a little in some other post, but the new publication is a moment to revisit the journey to Chartów, where the album Blackcap and Wren was recorded. With…

Young great crested grebe unbothered by human presence — While walking around the most human-friendly lake near Myślibórz Wielki, we encountered a bird swimming closely to the shore. There was a bench nearby with a threat written on it, explaining that if anyone dared to litter nearby, the person making the threat would shit in their living room. …

Before the forest ban, and the end of the trip — It’s been a bit more than a week since we came back from Myślibórz Wielki, and it’s only now that I sat down and wrote a story with photos from the last walk we had there. The end of the week-long workation was marked by family time and a forest…

Yesterday wasn’t a good day for a walk. It rained since early morning, with additional storms as well. But the air was excellent, so I decided to sit for a couple of minutes by the nearby lake to see if there was a bird willing to show itself.

Workation in Naturalne Siedlisko — In January, during the WOŚP charity event, I won a 3-day retreat in Naturalne Siedlisko in a village called Gorczeniczka, halfway between Toruń and Olsztyn in Poland. Naturalne Siedlisko needs a post on its own, but here I’ll show you the pictures from a bird-recording walk nearby.

And finding barely any — Yesterday we finally got out of Myślibórz Wielki without the local free-roaming dog following us, so we could cross the Polish-German border and visit the places where mushrooms should grow like crazy. When walking we saw some Suillus type of mushrooms, but even if they are edible, they are not…