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The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening. The first of these is working with a small group of young people from Sidestrand School here in North Norfolk.
Towards the end of 2022 we ran a couple of sessions with this group at Sheringham Park, and at Felbrigg and in these we played listening games, explored the estates on foot, learnt about the wildlife and habitats of the area, and started to explore their acoustic habitats through listening and audio field recording. This episode focuses on a trip the group made to Horsey in Norfolk to see, and listen, to the Seals.
It was a typical bleak January winter's day when we all arrived at Horsey Wind Pump, but enthusiasm was high! We planned to walk the one and a half miles through the marshes, past the Nelson pub to a break in the sand dunes that run the length of the beach, and that provide a valuable barrier shielding the seals from public view. It was an ambitious aim….
We set the kids their first task; to channel their inner naturalist and make audio field notes as we trekked through muddy fields, on windy roads and across gravel paths to reach a natural spectacle that none of them had seen before.
LINKS
Riverlands
Horsey Seals
Homesounds
HomeSounds Show Supporters Club
The HomeSounds project began working with the National Trust in the autumn of 2022 through its Riverlands project and has installed two live-streaming microphones at their Felbrigg and Blickling Estates. Running Alongside these installations are a series of educational activities encouraging people to become more active in their environmental listening. The first of these is working with a small group of young people from Sidestrand School here in North Norfolk.
Towards the end of 2022 we ran a couple of sessions with this group at Sheringham Park, and at Felbrigg and in these we played listening games, explored the estates on foot, learnt about the wildlife and habitats of the area, and started to explore their acoustic habitats through listening and audio field recording. This episode focuses on a trip the group made to Horsey in Norfolk to see, and listen, to the Seals.
It was a typical bleak January winter's day when we all arrived at Horsey Wind Pump, but enthusiasm was high! We planned to walk the one and a half miles through the marshes, past the Nelson pub to a break in the sand dunes that run the length of the beach, and that provide a valuable barrier shielding the seals from public view. It was an ambitious aim….
We set the kids their first task; to channel their inner naturalist and make audio field notes as we trekked through muddy fields, on windy roads and across gravel paths to reach a natural spectacle that none of them had seen before.
LINKS
Riverlands
Horsey Seals
Homesounds
HomeSounds Show Supporters Club