One of my favourite sounds is that of the fire-bellied toad. In this recording you will hear the toads from 8 PM to midnight with a background of tree frogs and tawny owl.

Högaborg, Scania. May 12, 2025.
Zoom F3 + Clippy EM272 1 m apart

Frogs & Owls

A group of emus vocalising in the predawn darkness, with booming drumbeats from their throat pouches. A Warrumbungles woodland dawn chorus ensues gradually with many species including kookaburras, honeyeaters, magpies and more...

EmuDawn2

Some incidental background information about the weather event recorded in this recording: https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/rare-tornado-warning-in-adelaide-as-storms-powerful-winds-slam-sa/1890841.

2025.08.29 A Stormy Night and Dawn. Late Winter.

2025.08.29 Stormy Dawn Excerpt: Mid-Side with Omni Mid

Begone

Frogs in a creek at night: Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera).

2025.08.09 Night Creek Excerpt 1 (Frogs) Omni Mid-Side and Omni AB 63 cm

Note that this is a typical example of a koala's growling being triggered as a response to the distant sound of a vehicle engine (in this instance, probably a light aircraft).

2025.08.09 Night Creek Excerpt 2 (Koala) Omni Mid-Side and Omni AB 63 cm

A very, very gradually unfurling, utterly unhurried, dawn chorus, beginning from the very first faint bird calls of First Light (Crescent Honeyeaters) in a eucalypt forest near the north-western coast of Kangaroo Island. In various passages of the recording, the gentle, plaintive calls of Glossy Black Cockatoos (an endangered species) can be heard; also, occasionally, the loud, wailing calls of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos.

A continuous unedited recording. By human time, this extract from an overnight unattended recording, made on Thursday 10th April 2025 (five years after the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires), runs from 05:34 to 07:27.

Recommended listening: good quality headphones (preferably open-backed) with flat frequency response, or good quality monitors, at a low to mid volume.

Recorded mindfully and respectfully on land and water which, although not indigenously inhabited for some 4000 years, remains to this day of fundamental cultural, spiritual and historical importance to the indigenous mainland Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna, and Narangga peoples.

2025.04.10 From First Light. Wilderness Protection Area. Kangaroo Island.

A rich soundscape from Northern Sweden, highlighting the incredible insect life still to be found in this environment. A wonderful place to field record. The song of Goldcrest to a backdrop of various pollinating bees and hoverflies begins as a Black-headed Gulls call overhead. Arctic Terns, Hooded Crow, Common Redshank, Common Greenshank, Wood Pigeon, Wood Sandpiper, Greylag Goose, White Wagtail and others can all be heard in the background as the recording progresses.

Arctic Terns and Insects in Västerbotten, Northern Sweden

Lom Geophone recording of a Red Ant colony at Västerbotten, in Northern Sweden.

Geophone Recording od Wood Anthill; Northern Sweden

Somehow, it was quite touching to listen to these little creatures, munching their way into a mushroom somewhere from below. I suppose they might be very small worms, but I did not see them, so I am not sure.
JrF ecoutic into leaf audio field amp into mixpre 6ii



Forest mushroom being eaten – from underneath

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

Frogs & Owls

Bo Söderström