Finches

Brambling

Chaffinch

Goldfinch

Nothing out of the ordinary but I am longing for the field season to kick off. Put out the Tascam FR-AV2 and Clippy EM272 in AB configuration close to our birdfeeder. A horse passes by on the gravel road and greenfinches, goldfinches, tree sparrows, blue tits and great tits fight for the seeds.

Håga by, Uppsala. January 18, 2025

Goldfinches and greenfinches

Bramblings in their thousands move through Uppland in late April to their breeding grounds in northern Sweden. This very cold morning on April 28, 2024 around 100 bramblings temporarily stopped by a pond in the forest of Nåsten and sang their hearts out.

Lewitt 440 pure in ortf + Mixpre 3ii

Bramblings sing their heart out

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. 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.

Goldfinches and greenfinches

Bo Söderström

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