{"id":2327,"date":"2019-07-28T06:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T06:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:08:24","slug":"scorched-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.singwarte.info\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"Scorched Earth I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 2019<\/strong>
The naturalist’s year<\/strong> is more or less structured by the life cycles<\/strong> of the natural world.
Living in a life cycle mostly alienated from nature<\/strong>, it brings with it that only partial
insights into the former are possible.

At least once a year, I usually visit a former military training area<\/strong> south of Berlin in
order to enjoy the nocturnal behaviour of the peculiar Eurasian Nightjar\u00a0and the
sandy landscape and seclusion<\/strong> it lives in.
This year, however, it was very unusual: the entire forest and the entire lower aufwuchs
was burnt<\/strong>. The extreme heat resulted in a forest fire that affected an area of 700 hectares<\/strong>.
The consequences of climate change<\/strong> were shockingly plastic and concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had I been able to make fantastic sound recordings in the forest two years ago, now the
walk was fairly surreal<\/strong>. Only individual birds were present and the general soundscape<\/strong>
was just silence<\/strong>. Here is a sound recording I made back in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n