I have heard some very strange songs and calls from Great Tits but this was an entirely new song to me. In the end of the recording a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is calling.

Kalvnäset, Tämnaren. April 24, 2025.
Mixpre 3ii + Wildtronics stereo parabole

A strange song in the forest? Often a Great Tit!

For background information, please see the playlist description at https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/2022-10-16-night-listening-coastal-pine-forest.

Night Listening: Pine Forest. 6. The Magpie. The Dog. The Rooster.

Night Listening: Pine Forest. 5. The Dog.

Night Listening: Pine Forest. 4. The Rooster.

Night Listening: Pine Forest. 3. The Dog.

Night Listening: Pine Forest. 2. The Unidentified. The Dog. The Magpie.

Night Listening: Pine Forest. 1. The Bull.

This excerpt featuring the dawn singing of a Golden Whistler is from the last few minutes of the longer recording https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/2025-09-13-ngarkat-dawn-early-spring.

The recording was made with a mid-side rig utilising an omnidirectional mid microphone.

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Ngargad (Ngarket) people.
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Track photo credit: Australian Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis ssp. fuliginosa), https://www.inaturalist.org/people/anthonypaul.

2025.09.13 Golden Whistler. Ngarkat Dawn. Early Spring.

A wide and deep, gently rhythmically hypnotic, mallee heathland dawn, from an evening to morning recording made with a mid-side rig utilising an omnidirectional mid microphone. (Relaxed listening with good quality headphones with flat frequency response, especially open-backed, at a moderate volume, is ideal.)

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Ngargad (Ngarket) people.

Track photo: taken at the recording location, in Ngarkat Conservation Park, on the second morning of recording.

2025.09.13 Ngarkat Dawn. Early Spring.

I was in Estonia recently to check-out Matsalu National park to learn as much as I could about it before maybe returning in May to record.  It was the wrong time of year to record birds, however back in the city I recorded some street sounds on my last evening.  Equipment; A Sound Devices MixPre3 recorder and a matched pair of Primo microphones.  Recording 4476.

Side Street Atmosphere - 27 September 2025-8.35pm.  Tallinn

Field sound recordist and archivist of vanishing sounds in natural Iandscapes. Highly commended in the Sound of the Year Awards 2024 - Best Natural Sound.

A strange song in the forest? Often a Great Tit!

Bo Söderström

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