Meadow Lark singing after a rain storm

Here is a great video of a Meadow Lark singing after a recent rain storm in Souther Alberta Canada. Sorry it's a bit shaky at the start because I dropped my camera.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Meadow
• Lark
• Bird
• southern
• alberta
• canada
• magrath
• singing
• songbird

[ETMadScientist]

curious what it means if someone says they sing like a lark? seems like a familiar expression

[sassysuzy4u]

Any Larks that I have come across are very vocal. They sing in the rain, sun, wind, whatever. They songs are also more of a pleasant warble than a cheep or single note.

[sassysuzy4u]

Thanks for sharing this with your Aunt! I don't live in Alberta anymore and get pretty homesick as well so I'm glad to have helped!

[belsnickles]

Thanks for posting this. I grew up surrounded by fields, and was accustomed to hearing the meadowlarks that made their homes there. Most of the fields are gone now, turned into housing tracts. My mom, who still lives there, says the thing she misses most is not hearing the meadowlarks. I'm going to send her a link to your video.

[sassysuzy4u]

I'm very glad you like it. Honestly their song is one of the things I miss most about living in the city.

[AtarahDerek]

My favorite songbird. We had these all over where I grew up. Man, I miss that song.

[ETMadScientist]

@YouCanModItTrustMe69 ;0) heh, a year later too....current favorite living singer is serj tankian. but layne was and will always be the greatest for so many reasons

[Herronton]

beautiful, the Meadowlark is one of my favourites, I named my Theatre Group in High River after this bird, great work, Love Lou

[YouCanModItTrustMe69]

@ETMadScientist I was brought here by the same Alice in Chains quote of Layne Staley you were...

[rrvtjd]

Excellent job! You captured that beautiful sound so clearly. Thank you for this. :-)

[RenRenRanger]

Many thanks for posting this! I'm a writer and I recently realized how I compared one of my character's voices to a lark... because I've always read the cliche about larks but never have actually seen or heard a lark! They are surprisingly lovely!

[sjlove2bird]

@sassysuzy4u Larks are not Meadowlarks, though. Larks are mostly Eurasian birds, many sing in flight. So I think the expression has something to do with their musical enthusiasm.

[mermaidcandy]

We have western meadow larks around Eastern Oregon and I love their tune.