The recording starts at 7 am. It's raining a little. Close-up of swallows. Redwing(his dialect or subsong) and other birds can be recognized in the background. It is an interesting fact that the Swallow (Hirundo rustica) was chosen as the national bird of Estonia on November 26, 1962 in Tartu

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

Sharing the habitat with swallows one night. Soomaa National Park, Estonia May 23, 2021

Lo Nuevo es la memoria radiante del pasado (2020)

Listening with good quality headphones in a quiet environment is recommended.

2021.12.05 Rufous Whistler and Kangaroo. Dawn. Mallee Country. Early Summer.

There's less wildlife activity in cloud forests than in the rainforests but the sounds you might come across can be pretty unique.

Located on the top of a hill above the river so you can hear some distant pink noise. It was 6:00 morning time after spending the night camping deep inside the cloud forest of Cueva de Los Guacharos national park.

This was the night ambience being kilometers away, over the mountains from the nearest rural settlement.

Cueva de Los Guácharos is a 90 km2 protected area of dense preserved forests and thick vegetation. It's the last mountain before the Amazon basin. The highest peak reaches 2621m. Only a tiny bit of a park can be accessed by trails but the majority is entirely inaccessible. There are areas and surely caves that are undiscovered. The 90 km2 size does not seem so much but thick vegetation with steep slopes, avalanches makes this place very difficult to access.

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Morning in the Colombian Cloud Forest

This sound recording was made at a pond in Augsburg.

Recorded :  05.06.2017,   11 pm.
Location:    Augsburg / Bavaria / Germany
ZOMM H6 - RODE NT5 MP - ORTF - Sourcefile:  44,1 KHz

Toads Frogs - Birds - Water - Field Recording - Nature

A second recording from Rengaskari Reef, snowy and frozen in the middle of the icy sea.  To my big surprise, there was a Blackbird singing in early morning, one hour before sunrise.

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(MKH8020 ab80cm, MixPre 32>24/48, -6dB, Flac)

A frozen Reef - 16/3/2022 -  Rengaskari Finland / The Blackbird

Thunderstorm in Amazonia, Ecuado, a small selection from a longer recording.

Ecuador Thunderstorm Sample

Ecuador Thunderstorm

On Saturday, 12 November 2022, South Australia, including the whole Adelaide region, experienced an uncharacteristic extended storm of unusual intensity. Several storm fronts, arriving from the NW over St Vincent's Gulf, hit Adelaide and the Fleurieu Peninsula. The storm has been described as "one of the strongest thunderstorms in recent memory",* causing flash flooding, wind gusts exceeding 100 km/h that tore down huge gum trees (many of which crushed houses, cars, and electricity lines), as well as flattening giant electricity pylons, leaving around a hundred thousand people without power. 

This recording, made in the Adelaide Hills (near Norton Summit), captures a sample of the first and mildest storm wavefront that day. (The recording begins at 10:30 in the morning. This abridged version selects two excerpts from the longer recording, chosen because of the poignant presence of bird calls audible between the peals of thunder. The highlighted parts of the spectrogram in the track image indicate the passages from the longer recording that were selected for this abridged version.) The microphones sheltered from the fairly light rain underneath a 'sweet pittosporum' or 'native daphne' tree (Pittosporum undulatum), native to southeastern Australia, but a 'declared plant' in South Australia ('a woody weed invading native local vegetation', due to widespread ornamental planting).

Travelling farther south immediately after this recording, I was able to intercept the next two wavefronts, which were far more intense. Although the storm was utterly awesome and spectacular (lightning bolts plunging into fields, exploding thunder tearing the atmosphere apart), it was impossible to find any spot from which to record the storm, because it brought with it an abundant lashing downpour of rain and wild tree-tossing winds. In the end, I could only just sit and experience it. Which, after all, is the very best thing to do, with Nature. (Most of the time, at least. Not recommended when it gets this violent. Although I have to say that this was truly a very beautiful and awe-inspiring experience; and, personally, I'm very glad to have been out there to witness it. I'm also contemplating possible recording solutions, in case this ever happens again... Enraptured by thunderstorms as a spatial music of nature. All that I say here is the truth.)
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*https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/why-the-adelaide-storm-was-so-intense/925471
https://www.sapowernetworks.com.au/data/313806/12-november-storm-update-from-sa-power-networks/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/18/australias-indigenous-people-call-for-seat-at-table-at-cop27
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Recorded with respect upon the land of the Kaurna people.

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2022.11.12 Storm above the Hills. Late Spring. (Excerpt)

This is an excerpt from the album ' A Morning in Kutini-Payamu' available at https://wildambience.com/albums/a-morning-in-kutini-payamu/

Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) National Park is a vast area of lowland rainforest in near the tip of Cape York in the far north of Australia.  The biodiversity here is  more akin with the lowland forests of New Guinea, and for a significant number of species this area is the southern limit of their distribution. In this sample you can hear the loud whistles of a Magnificent Riflebird and the squawks of Eclectus Parrots, along with many other species in the background.

Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) National Park, Australia - A Biodiversity Hotspot

About a half-hour later than the previous track, below. Things change slightly throughout the morning.

Sharing the habitat with swallows one night. Soomaa National Park, Estonia May 23, 2021

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