Swone at the onus. Welcome to the Blind Buy podcast. If this is your first

podcast consider going back to an earlier episode to familiarize yourself with the

law of this podcast.

My voice is still gone this week.

I got a bastard of a dose and I'm waiting for it to clear up, but fear not for I have a wonderful guest, an incredibly interesting guest, and this

week's podcast.

This man's name is Sean Ronane.

He's an ornithologist he studies birds but specifically he records the sounds of Irish

birds he's on a mission to record every single bird in Ireland, and he's a fascinating person.

Sean's unique passion for recording the sounds of Irish birds was the subject of a documentary this year, bird song. is the and it's getting an international screening in November I believe. He also was a book

coming out called Nature Boy on the 10th of October. But I sat down I had a chat with Sean in the Cork Opera House over the weekend. We had a

fucking wonderful gig, an incredible gig, a lovely quiet Sunday night gig

where I learned about Bird song, myself and all the audience.

We learned about Bard's and different songs that they have and why they sing these songs,

and we listen to many examples of bird songs that Sean had recorded.

So that's what I'm going to play for you this week.

While my voice recovers, when my voice recovers,

I give it a few more days and it'll be grand, but I definitely

want to rest my voice, I don't want to fatigue it.

If I record an episode for ye that's, I'm saying an hour long like last week,

even though you're hearing an hour's worth of podcast, it's about 20 hours of recording or maybe even more because I edit my voice as I go along like a word processor.

So speaking for, speaking for 20 hours into a microphone when I'm supposed to be allowing my voice to recover.

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