Back on the bike in the new year. Seeking out the Snowy Owl and started the Backyard Brrr challenge. A Bathtub Confessional later I’m out looking for the Red-flanked Bluetail hanging out in Great Falls National Park.

Tracks in this end-of-season-and-year episode of Cacophonous Revel Radio are:

1. Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas) - Reid

2. O Come Emmanuel - Reid and Micah

3. Santa Baby - Reid and Micah

4. Silent Night - Reid and Micah

5. Untitled - Reid

6. Bling Master - Reid

7. (Hidden Track)

2025 Spotify Playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6655ygiOoNITMzHeVvpymt?si=81dcf441d6754213

This episode of Places is a shorty up at Overall Run Falls in Shenandoah National Park. My recorder ran out of room (rookie) so I only got about 13 minutes of audio from along the trail and at the falls, but what I got is cool, so I'll share it. Enjoy!

Had a day off to visit Burke Lake and tried to identify some birds. Juncos are back, plenty of crows (three minutes of them!), and waterfowl. I’m feeling grateful for the changing seasons and observing my level of bird-dom. I search for some lost recording sessions and reflect on Frankenstein movies.

Tracks from this episode of Cacophonous Revel Radio:

1. Go Down Joe - Boys With Wigs

2. Bargain Pearls - Reid, Nick

3. There Are Girls - Reid

4. Guys Who Drum On Everything - Reid

5. Big Nose - Reid

6. Isn't That A Romantic Thing To Say - Reid

These recordings for Places occurred at a spot called West Thompson Damn, Connecticut. The first of three locations was just outside of a picnic area, the second was at the shore of a little peninsula jutting out near the damn (I move the recorder to a second location after a bit), and the third was by a flagpole near the parking lot. You can always hear the nearby road traffic and Blue Jays, among other birds, such as American Goldfinches and a few different sparrows.

An attempt to document a Coldplay-like dream song and scenario, and heading up to Shenandoah. Sharing my primordial relationship with the Killdeer species, and checked out some Hawkwind on my drive. I underestimate the length of my planned hike and totally “whimp” out! Bird rundown and lots of movie talk, including Shelby Oaks.

Tracks in this episode of Cacophonous Revel Radio are:

1. Winter Is Here (Recovered Mix) - Reid May

2. White House - Reid May

3. Taken Away (Acoustic with Rain) - Reid May

4. Soon - Reid May

5. The Airport Makes Me Cry - Reid, Tim, Charles

6. Give Us Away - Soiled Doves

This episode of places is the second part of my recordings from Italy this summer. It’s literally just one long recording in the afternoon  from a third floor hotel balcony in the city of Amalfi, looking down onto the street and pedestrian promenade, and out over the docks and into the sea. Street traffic, seagulls and sparrows, and eavesdropped passerby conversations ebb and flow in this port city.

I checked out the new Toxic Avenger flick (and rewatched the original, of course.) Did some biking and birding to see an American Golden Plover and a Red Phalarope. Some close encounters of the birding kind. Watching some trailers before The Long Walk.