Lovely recording Andrus. I dream of visiting the Alam-Pedja nature reserve one day.

Very nice recording.  The Blyth's Reed Warbler is one of my favourite birdsongs.

Tascam Dr-100 MK III digital recorder
An Azden microphone pre-amplifier/mixer
Handmade phantom powered Primo Microphones with EM172 capsules. 24 bit 48kHz

Blyth's Reed Warbler's habitat in the late morning. Alam-Pedja nature reserve, Estonia June 5, 2021

Captured on the terrace of a summer house in Viti, Harju County, Estonia, on 11.08.2021, in a summer of change.
Besides rain, you can hear thunder growling in the distance, cracking of the wooden house, some late summer birds rousing, and noise from cars driving by on a nearby road starts to come through again as the rain subsides.

Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/thetextureofthings/transition-dynamics-of-the-end-of-a-rainstorm-part-1

Recorded with the Zoom H4N Pro with a stereo matched pair of Clippy EM272 mics with a distance of about 50 cm, gain set to 40. Edited in Reaper.

TRANSITION | Dynamics of the end of a rainstorm, part 2

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European Pied Flycatcher In Rain At Nesting Box 230706

Captured on the Noarootsi peninsula in Estonia, in the evening of one of the shortest days, on 01.01.2023.

Recorded with the Zoom H4N Pro with a stereo matched pair of Clippy EM272 mics. Edited in Reaper.

Photo by J.

Flock of swans behind the reeds at dusk, New Year's Day / Luiged roo taga

live recording from St. Antonius church in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, Octorber 25, 2023 by Christoph Hilser

Ruhe.punkt, Concert as part of the IDO-Festival

Markus Hinz, MIDI-controlled organ


Video: Ruhe.punkt - Martell Beigang und Markus Hinz
https://youtu.be/LG-TzKUqw7U?si=azPK6yubJw06hN17

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This longish recording focusses on First Light rather than Dawn (Second Light and Sunrise), although it includes the beginnings of the latter. It ought to be listened to with good quality headphones, or good quality speakers, at a mid-range volume of around fifty to sixty per cent. The recording is unedited: one of the things that particularly interests me, and that I especially enjoy, about this early spring First Light forest soundscape (and other similar early spring forest Dawn recordings that I made during this road trip to Tasmania) is precisely its very gradual, slow, minimal, and spacious development. This sounds nothing like an overly-busy tropical rainforest. The 'silence' never completely disappears.

In this rich, dense, moist, cool-temperature southern forest of Tasmania, at the time that this excerpt begins, it is still fairly dark to the human eye. The first First Light call is (as usual) from a Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa), a species of Currawong that is found only in Tasmania. Its call is quite unique, very unlike any mainland Currawong, and I grew to adore it, and to recognise it as the main Tasmanian forest sentinel of dawn.

We also hear the final few night calls of Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis, which I would prefer to refer to as the 'Tasmanian Boobook', rather than its more common and familiar name, 'Morepork'. Both names are, of course, onomatopoeic labels provided by Europeans. But the name 'Morepork' suggests, to me, an image of radically displaced Europeans in an unfamiliar landscape, craving pork meat, and hearing this beautiful owl call as though it were expressing their own cravings: 'More pork!" (Interestingly, DNA evidence has suggested that Ninox novaeseelandiae is more closely related to the New Zealand Boobook (also commonly known in NZ as the 'Morepork') than to the mainland Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook).)

The other early caller, here, is the Yellow Wattlebird (Anthocaera paradoxa), also found only in Tasmania.

Gradually, the 'Dawn Chorus' stirs and unfurls into a more richly-populated wakefulness. Thankfully, the introduced and now feral Superb Lyrebirds, which have seriously infested this region, seem to be late risers that enjoy sleeping in: somewhat later in the original recording, they pretty much take over most of the forest soundscape.

Recorded with meditative respect upon the land of the Nuenonne tribe of the Palawa people. The recording was made with a pair of MKH 8040s in ORTF into an F3 recorder.

2023.09.23 First Light. Huon Valley. Early Spring.

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Here is a track I should have posted last year.  It is an experimental recording I made near Dalsvallan (Near Sveg) Sweden.  I had the new Lewitt 440 Pure microphones and I wanted to see how far I could push the gain before noise became noticeable as they have a noise level of 7db.  The sound of the breeze in the treetops somewhat masks the mic/amp noise, however the gain on the MixPre3 was at the very high level of 74db, still the quality is really good.  Where I recorded this is nearer the mountain than in the picture but will give you an idea of what the area was like.  You might just make out a house just below the middle of the picture, this is the area where I stayed for three weeks.  Recording 3986.

Blyth's Reed Warbler's habitat in the late morning. Alam-Pedja nature reserve, Estonia June 5, 2021

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