The herons of Petulu

Recorded by Marcel Gnauk.

"I came around 5 PM (what was a little bit too early ) and if you want to see 20000 birds in the sky like the Lonely Planet described you should come in April or May when the babies are ready to fly!

I went a few days earlier at 5 PM evening and let me tell you it is not like what you may think from the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds” that you see a wall of birds flying at once into the village and the sky is covered in birds.

They coming slowly from all direction and I could only see a few hundred. The real magic happens in the morning when all birds are sleeping and you can see and listen how slowly everything and everybody wakes up in the village together!

This is the moment when you see thousands of birds leaving and circulating in the sky. Together with the upcoming sun in the background, it was one of the best things I have ever seen and of course recorded!"

Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash