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garden villaA CREEKSIDE JOURNAL

CEDAR CREEK · OAK CLIFF, TEXAS

A little closer
to the wild.

A listening post in the pecan grove.
A growing record of the birds that visit Garden Villa.

ILLUSTRATED PREVIEW
Touch a bird. Meet a visitor.
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The listening begins soon. These birds are a sample collection. Your microphone will bring the journal to life with real visitors and recordings.

A PLACE TO PAY ATTENTION

Small encounters.
Long memories.

Along Cedar Creek, Garden Villa is a place for gardens, family, and the quiet work of restoration. This journal makes room for the other lives that share it: a call from the canopy, a rustle at the fence, a visitor you might otherwise miss.

THE LISTENING LEDGER

A rhythm of visitors.

The hours, the calls, the familiar company.
A closer look at life around the listening post.

Sample statistics · Explore a simulated week. Real counts will begin when your microphone is connected.

SAMPLE DAY

ACTIVITY THROUGH THE DAY

Day’s rhythm

Selected sample day Sample week average

Select an hour to see its visitors. All numbers are illustrative.

HEARD IN THIS HOUR

FIRST DETECTIONS

New to the journal.

Sample first appearances, through your selected day.

THE GARDEN VILLA ATLAS

Collected company.

One little stamp for every kind of visitor.
Sample illustrations until our first real detection.

PREVIEW COLLECTION · 9 SPECIES

NOTES FROM THE CREEK

The art of
noticing.

A place to keep the small things.

01 / THE LISTENING POST

Before the first call.

The kit is here. Soon, a small microphone will listen toward the creek, gathering a record of the birds that pass through Garden Villa.

For now, this is the first page: an invitation to slow down and see what is already here.

More to come, from the grove.

YOUR FIELD NOTE

What did you notice?

Notes stay in this browser. Export them to keep a copy.

GARDEN VILLA

An illustrated portrait · Avian Visitors

GARDEN VILLA
—heard here
—first heard
—last heard

Station offline · awaiting our first recordings

About this visitor

Family
Genus
Species
Local rarity
Not assessed

Look for

Listen for

Species notes: Cornell Lab of Ornithology ↗

Recordings

NO AUDIO YET
The first call is still ahead.

Recordings, spectrograms, dates, and identification confidence will appear here after the microphone is connected.

Hear reference sounds at Cornell ↗
CEDAR CREEK · OAK CLIFF

GARDEN VILLA LISTENING POST

A journal
with open ears.

The station will use a small microphone and BirdNET to identify bird calls near Cedar Creek. Each new species can become part of the illustrated collection.

This edition is a preview. The microphone is not configured, and no detections or recordings have been collected here.

Station offline

Next: configure the kit, verify the first recordings, then connect the station feed to this journal.

Bird identifications are acoustic predictions; confidence and recordings help you review them. Preview illustrations are artistic interpretations.