Name: Begging calls of great spotted woodpecker by Bo Söderström in Begging calls from fledged young
Duration: 1 min 48 s
Description: Great spotted woodpecker nestlings can be heard far and wide in early June. Quite monotonous but after one minute they finally get food from their parents.

Begging calls from fledged young

Great spotted woodpecker nestlings can be heard far and wide in early June. Quite monotonous but after one minute they finally get food from their parents.

Begging calls of great spotted woodpecker

Two goshawks fledglings begging for food. They were still in the vicinity of the nest. My neighbour is not that keen on having them breeding close by since he has a pigeon house... Nåsten, Uppsala. 17 July 2022

Goshawk fledglings begging for food

A typical garden soundscape all through July in Uppsala. Family groups of great tits, blue tits and nuthatches tour the garden's apple trees and you can hear the constant begging calls of the young tits. 30 July 2022, Håga, Uppsala.

Begging calls of tits and nuthatches

Less than one km from home I suddenly heard three sparrowhawks begging for food (uncannily similar to the nestlings of long-eared owl). How could I have missed this nest throughout the year?

Sparrowhawk fledglings begging

This time of year lots of strange calls can be heard from passerine fledglings. This call made me wonder what it was but after a while I saw the parents: wood warbler! Nåsten, Uppsala. 30 July 2022

Wood warbler begging calls

The downpour on the fir trees at dawn and the songbirds.
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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
10192025

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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Begging calls of great spotted woodpecker

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