Bushcraft House - Covering Walls with Reed - Sawhorse Making - Amazing Bird and Deer Sounds (Part 8)

Bushcraft House - Covering two of the walls with reed - Making a myriapod sawhorse that will help me with cutting wood for my future projects - Amazing bird and deer sounds at dusk in a spring forest bursting with life - enjoying time in the woods. No talking, only peaceful nature sounds. If you want to find out more about all of these and the story behind this video, please read on.
We had rain here almost every day this week. It is a normal thing during spring here and it is a real blessing for the earth. The woods are bursting with life, fresh green leaves, flowers and grasses, wild plants growing everywhere. Leafy branches will help hide my little hut even better than before, but I will probably have to cover the house with natural materials and make it green as the woods, for camouflaging it even better during spring and summertime. I worked on the walls for 3 days but only filmed one of those 3 days I spent working there. On day one I just prepared the reed I had left there and continued covering the walls. On day 2 I went to gather some more reed and carried it to my shelter. A strong rain started in the meantime and I was soaked wet after carrying all the reed to the shelter so I decided to give up working that day and returned there on day 3(a bright sunny day) and managed to film the video you are now watching.
Bird and deer sounds were absolutely amazing this week especially before dusk and at dawn. There is a certain time when the breathtaking concert begins and then it all ends abruptly, the woods suddenly becomes very quiet and dark, and you usually can only hear owls or other night birds calls from time to time. I was the fortunate witness of their humbling performance and felt my heart being soothed by their healing music. Such beautiful frail creatures. Hope I will have more time to observe and listen to them closely, learn their songs and names. Hopefully, we will at some point become friends and more and more accustomed to each other. Deer have also made a custom of coming near my house and quietly watching me while I work or quickly passing by and taking a sneak peek. I saw them a few times per day while I was there building. They did not seem afraid, but rather curious. Of course, I soon as they understood I spotted them they quickly went away. I am thinking of going on a special photo trip, and hopefully, I will manage to take some deer pictures that I will share with you in the community section.
Why do birds sing? "I listen to birds singing and I think with how much pride humans compose their music. These creatures we call irrational, that sing with joy, not expecting applause, without using music sheets. There are different kinds of birds that sing together, and I don't think they know each other's language or that they have any professional interest in answering one another, no particular interest to enter the general symphony created in the forest. There is nothing strident, no false notes, no dissonance. (...) Now I understand why God takes care of the birds of the sky so they don't have to worry about what they will eat, while we humans have become slaves of our own work and ambitions. Because we learn nothing from birds..."(Savatie Bastovoi)
And because I mentioned music and the way birds sing in a wonderful harmonious choir before sleep, I will also quote my favorite contemporary music composer, Arvo Part. His music and conception about music are very similar to the way birds sing: "The most sensitive musical instrument is the human soul. The next is the human voice. One must purify the soul until it begins to sound. The composer is a musical instrument, and, at the same time, a performer on that instrument. The instrument has to be in order to produce sound. One must start with that...not with the music. Through the music, the composer can check whether his instrument is tuned and to what key it is tuned. (...) The criterion must be everywhere and only, humility. Music is my friend. Ever - understanding, compassionate, forgiving. It's a comforter...the handkerchief for drying my tears of sadness, the source of my tears of joy. My liberation and flight. But also a painful thorn in my flesh, and soul...that which makes me sober, and teaches humility." (Arvo Part's speech from his Musical Diaries) The Arvo Part Center, dedicated to the Estonian composer, is situated deep in a pine tree forest, a "flowing house" without any right angles and it has no main entrance or exit.
A sample of Arvo Part's music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icjcVr6j8gc

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