Saskatchewan Birds

Click here or on the title above to listen to an audio podcast of the amazing bird sound that surrounds us in the summer at Trails End Ranch in Saskatchewan. This is the first podcast of what will become many.

The birds bring to mind a quote from David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous, 'As technological civilisation diminishes the biotic diversity of the earth, language itself is diminished. As there are fewer and fewer songbirds in the air, due to the destruction of their forests and wetlands, human speech looses more ond more of it's evocative power. For when we no longer hear the voices of the warbler and wren, our own speaking language can no longer be nourished by their cadences. As the splashing speech of the rivers is silenced by more and more dams, as we drive more and more of the land's wild voices into the oblivion of extinction, our own languages become increasingly impoverished and weightless, progressively empties of their earthly resonance.'