This is a happy sound like something what he likes and loves and has happy "sisikee"

This is a 22nd BRW I managed to get by recording at night in hopes to catch the BRW. Sadly he did not come close but was close enough so you can hear him sing all night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiwSM-rmEu8

It is amazing how long this fella keeps going! He had 2 amazing parts what stood out to me

Here is an amazing part. First is a bounchy "Vha-THAM-vitiu, THAMvi" rhythm what is lovely and melodic. 2nd is an epic heavy metal sounding instrumental "Tarrn-t-t-t-tarrn-t-t-t-tii" what sounds like a drummer having fun

2nd cool thing from that audio I noticed was this amazing sync with corn crake and BRW singing. They both were in beat and sync so it was amazing to hear

I was going through my audios for something else and I found a BRW song I didnt even know i had! a 2018 year recording and an amazing talented singer too! These were his amazing parts! Holy crap I am so sad I didnt see their talent back then and didnt record more. And I barely stayed still so 90% audio was lost :C

You can ID a bird by its song! This happened in 2024 when I recognized a BRW song what matched 98%!! Each BRW has their own song pattern and combos. So Scorch JR has to be from Scorch family because these specific rhythms and sequences are way too specific to Scorch! Such as "begii begöö" and "Begiiviitsje" and the "Pitsevoo tsert dar dar"

I just realised something after I made the video.

If I recognized Scorch family (aka birds whos song match with their dad or kids) in 2024, that could mean that dad bird itself, or dads kids sing his song!

Example. Scorch mates, has kids, maybe 3 little brws. Now dad sings "pitsevoo tsert dar dar" and "begiviitsje" parts and these 3 brws hear it. They become adults and travel random places to sing their "pitsevoo tsert dar dar" with their own twists and extra parts. As I am the only one who collects BRW songs every year, If a bird I remember, appears to the same location I have recorded. i can recognize the bird by his song!

If a Scorch's kid sings somewhere else out of my area, I could not know it because I am unable to hear it. Same are with other ppl who might hear a BRW sing randomly at night but have no previous info or ideas that the bird could be Scorch family singer. They would hear random bird sing. If they would example listen my video and bu pure randomly remembers parts of song and would happen to hear the bird sing at night with this pattern, only then it could be known its a bird from same family.



Because each BRW has their own song patterns, rhythms and tempos. When BRW sings, it sings only their specific sequences and patterns. Maybe it adds some new parts here and there, but the main structure stays same the whole time the bird sings. Thats how I recognized Vippolo in 2023 every night i heard him. He always had "psiu vappiduugi" and "vippolo vippolo" in his repertuar. When i heard him 1 week later next to 3 other BRWs singing, I still could figure out Vippolo. He still had "psiu vappiduugi" in his song sequence :). That is a cue for me to id him. 2 weeks later. He still did "Psiu vappiduugi"

These 2 parts

That is also why I cut out best parts from each BRW and add onomatopoeia. They are bird song "lyrics" and samples visualized. I can see and both hear a sample what is familiar. Such as "viido" I see viido I know exactly what that part sounds. Then other bird sings and uses viido sample and sings "sitsiviido" that is another new variant. When I hear bird sing "sitsiviido" I can pinpoint asap what exact sound he sang because I can see the song lyric visually. And then I remember better too what birds have used "viido" and "sitsiviido" in their song and in what sequence and patterns. Even if 6 BRWs use "sitsiviido" in their songs, it all depends HOW each invidual uses that specific part.

One could sing "tik tik sitsiviido rhaavi" other could sing "sitsi vii-viido" and 3rd could sing "piskevöö sitsiviido". But you can hear a difference how 3 brws use this 1 part and can cut out the part to use as a cue later. As each BRW has specific sequence and pre pattern parts. Some parts they sing before specific pattern comes. So you can predict what part he will sing next after it.

So thats how I recognized Scorch so well because I had these cues I remembered because he was so rhythmic in 2023.

I feel I am the only one in the world who does what I do because I LOVE their songs so much and want to record as many as I can in the limited time they sing.

I dont know any other one who does it like this every night and 3 weeks in a row. I have a data of previous years of BRW songs to combare. I know probably some other ppl definitely have recorded BRW sing here and there and thats it. They probably have no idea or data to see does a new brw he might record is a bird who was singing previous years, they have no cues or data to combare. And many BRW videos on the internet are super short too. 3 minutes or 4 and thats it. Rarely seen a BRW video longer than 30min. I barely hear what the bird has in its repertuar if it is only 3 minutes long.

Thats why I always record as long as possible, always 1h and beyond to be able to catch as many different rhythms in that bird song pattern. (Sometimes bird does leave before 30 min or 1h and that is something I cannot control, i am happy anyway what I recorded)
Sometimes brw repeats 1 part 14 times in 1h song, other times 1 specific rhythm maybe appears only once or twice. When you listen a song through what is 1h or 1h 30min long, you can actually hear that birds whole song pattern, because no new sounding parts come and all rhythms are already heard (unless super random 1 of a kind part) As they repeat specific sequences certain times and then switch to another sequence and so on.

Here is another sound test in the making, this time from Sonata, one of my favs in 2024! I separated 165 different sounds. I want this video to be helpful to ornithology people who are curious what birds does BRW mimic. As BRWs go to India to winter and other similar area, they probably hear all kinds of interesting sounds. Id want to know where is "viido" from what only BRWs do and nobody else. Is it their own or is it a mimic?

There is still around 90 days to go for the BRW season, but I want to prepare early! I found some of these things on sale so I got two of them! I can put my tascam on it and get closer to bird by putting it on branch or other areas I can curl it around. I still would use tape for extra sure it is still :). Sadly the microphone failed me and I deeply apologise for some crappy audio I did in 2024, as the shotgun made the quality worse when bird was not straight infront of the mic

So I will get a different Microphone too what is differently designed (Supercardioid and Omnidirectional kind) which should make my bird same good quality like my Tascam gets- I was honestly unaware of that the Videomic Rycote also affects birdsong too. Now I am smarter and in 2025 I want to fix the mistakes I did. I want to respect the bird song and myself too by getting a high quality songs what brings me happiness in a beautiful quality :)

The season is soon here again and I count down each day for the peak moment for me!! Altho I start the season with Thrush nightingales from first day of May, but BRWs activate much later during the season, so for BRWs there is 63-65 days to go. last year first Blyth's reed warbler, named Tiivo JR, activated on 19 May 2024, what was the earliest I have heard them ❤️.

Woah! Only 19 days to go! The best time of my year is approaching closer and closer! I am so ready capturing even more birds this year!!!