Name: Ural Owls calling and mating by Bo Söderström in Owls
Duration: 9 min 59 s
Description: The Ural Owls have not yet laid eggs which is later than normal. The weather has *not* been favorable these last few weeks... In this droprig recording, you first hear the male calling and then the female. After 2 minutes you can hear them mating. Uppsala. April 6, 2023. Photo: Erik Karits

Owls

Tengmalm's Owl

Pygmy Owl

Although on the decline (?) there are still quite many Ural Owls breeding in Uppland. In the end of this recording you will hear when the male comes with food to the female and young. They are quite vocal in mid-May in the very early morning hours. This is a passive recording, I would not dare stand so close to Ural Owls otherwise. Really aggressive at their nests. During the night a Tawny Owl came too close and was chased off by the Urals. 220517

Dusk to dawn chorus with Ural Owls and Tawny Owls (May 17, 2022)

Tawny Owl

The Ural Owls have not yet laid eggs which is later than normal. The weather has *not* been favorable these last few weeks... In this droprig recording, you first hear the male calling and then the female. After 2 minutes you can hear them mating. Uppsala. April 6, 2023. Photo: Erik Karits

Ural Owls calling and mating

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Dawn’s Autumn Rain at Küre Mountains, Kastamonu

Recorded under cliffs in Alps - no wind was that night so there was almost complete silence . 
Owls and later falling rocks from cliffs which was maybe trigger by some animal walking high above microphones.
Edited with EQ 
Microphones ORTF Mkh40 Sennheiser
Recorder Zoom F6
Slovenia Alps
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Autumn Night Under Slovenian Alps – Owls and Falling Rocks from Cliffs

Late autumn at the Adishi glacier.

Capturing the clean and quality sound of the glacier presents its unique challenges to overcome. One is the logistics and fitness of even reaching such a place, as they are mostly in high, remote mountains. Another is reaching the suitable area of the glacier, which is huge and presents a very demanding terrain that takes you time and energy to get to. Most easy access is at the front of it, the tounge where the ice ends, yet that is where the water comes running out of under the glacier. So in order to avoid the noise of the rushing water, I needed to reach a more upper stage of it, by following it along the edge. That presents another difficulty as the edges of a mountain are "eaten" by the glacier therefor they are completely crumbling and unstable with a high chance of collapse. You can hear stones falling down continuously. When finally reaching this narrow edge, I managed to come closer to the heart of this ice monster. This is where I was able to capture the ice avalanches and rock falls from much closer and farther away from the noise of the river. You can feel the vibrations and low rumble frequencies. Standing so close to it and witnessing its process is very different from anything else; it somehow feels like something extraterrestrial, something we are never used to witnessing in our lives. Yet it is a whole complex system by itself, existing there, doing its thing, basically just water.

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Ural Owls calling and mating

Bo Söderström

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