 nice. reminds me of home. you have veru consistent pouched frog (Assa darlingtoni) calling. so happy these forests havent burnt up.. yet

Now after listening to some of your other recordings, I see (hear) this is truly how the birds sound.This is funny as it is how some of my own recordings of birds sound when I slow down the speed. I did this out of curiosity, thinking that perhaps this is how dinosaurs may have sounded, being related and all.

A gloomy daybreak in the cloud sheathed warm temperate rainforest at 800m at Mt Clunie means that the crickets and insects still sing but the Grey Shrike Thrush welcomes the day with some beautiful song phrases. Many of the usual dawn-chorus suspects are sleeping-in hoping the sun will come out after weeks of misty rain and thunderstorms from Cyclone Seth.

Daybreak in the Cloud-forest,  Macpherson Range

echo dirge

Song for the rain bug, or red velvet mite, the largest mite, who comes out when it rains

Music for Bugs

Red velvet mite

God makes no mistakes

a crackling fire after a night of camping under the milky way, shooting stars, etc.
what may sound like digital artifacts are close details of the wood burning/buzzing
august, 2018
in a mixture of coastal heathland/angophora/banksia forest, bouddi
on the lands of the Darkinjung people



fire by marley lagoon: https://aporee.org/maps/work/?loc=40321

fire with froglets, burning palms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtH6H3IdzkQ

Dawn fire in a bay

Performed on November 30, 2018. Recorded live for 3MBS Radio by sound engineer Steve Bullock.

Maurice Ravel - Introduction And Allegro

Night gently transitioning to day in the misty World Heritage Listed Gondwana rainforest amongst ancient Antarctic Beeches. On this January morning the subdued dawn light of the cloudy mountain top meant that the night shift of insects, cicadas and frogs continued well after the day shift begins at first light. For most of the year Eastern Yellow Robin leads the chorus but it is silent or absent on this morning. The frog calling is the "Pouched", "Marsupial" or "Hip-Pocket" frog, Assa darlingtonii, named for the brood pouches on the males, where the tadpoles travel to after hatching. (Thanks Jeremy).White-throated treecreeper is first followed at 4:30 by Alberts Lyrebird calling a little tentatively out of breeding season. Other species in this recording include Lewins Honeyeater, Brown Cuckoo Dove, Satin Bowerbird, Yellow-throated Scrubwren, White-Browed Scrubwren, King Parrot, Crimson Rosella, Bassian Thrush, Grey Shrike-thrush, Grey Fantail, Green Catbird, and the Eastern Whipbirds are feeding in pairs with an adult and a juvenile together. 
The recording begins 5 minutes before first light and continues till five minutes after dawn. Altitude 1140m ASL. Sennheiser MKH8020 in Iso-Binaural Stereo, SD702.

Gondwanan Forest Awakens

Midwinter dawn in cool-temperate rainforest in northern NSW. Melbourne-based jazz bassist Paddy Fitzgerald and a metronomic Brown Cuckoo Dove create a rhythm section for the background of Alberts Lyrebirds, scrub-wrens, Rosellas, fantails and others. (Paddys bass was tuned down to the lowest C1 note so best to listen through headphones which will reproduce 30Hz, or you will not hear most of the bass! )

Brown Cuckoo Dove and Upright Bass Duet

I missed most of this beautiful performance because I wasn't the only person at the hide.  It's difficult to tell everyone to shut up just because you have sound recording gear as they have every right to be there also, but I did manage to get the last of it here. This sort of performance is a treat to hear this late in the summer as spring is long gone so I was particularly happy to hear it and share with you. 

Gear: Sound Devices Mixpre 6 ii + Telinga Stereo Mk 3

Gavin Vella

Oystercatcher Performance - MixPre - 2112 01.WAV

Under a full moon on an early spring night, several Australian Magpies sing and respond to one another with rich fluty melodies. Dingoes can be heard howling from further up the valley and a Powerful Owl hoots from a nearby forested slope.

Album available here - https://wildambience.com/albums/moonlight-chorus/

Moonlight Chorus

Moonlight Chorus - Australian Magpies sing under a full moon- Album Sample

Northern Wollemi, Gospers Mountain: 13 months after Australias biggest ever bushfire, when 5 separate blazes merged into one megablaze, the ecosytem is recovering. On the ridges the devastation is still obvious and recovery slower but in the deep gullies and canyons in this sandstone country have survived relatively unburnt. Superb lyrebirds bred this last winter as evidenced by nests on rock overhangs and rock wallabies also have endured by sheltering deep in the rainforested canyons. Microbats , owlet nightjar, tawny frogmouth and southern boobook owl are heard and a cuckoo calls plaintively all through the night. Golden Whistlers dominate the busy dawn birdsong but there is a very complex  chorus. Recording begins 60 minutes before first light.

Gondwanan Forest Awakens

Big Scrub Sounds

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