Polar Low / untitled

Four Seasons Of Noise

Rattles, loops & drones.WAV

A small urban pond on the outskirts of Uppsala attract thousands of starlings at night where they stay in the reedbeds. This recording is from 4 to 4.40 AM. At first something disturbs the starlings at night and they all take to their wings, at the end of the recordings all starlings start their day and leave the pond in 14 big waves.

Ekebydammen, Uppsala. July 19, 2025.
Zoom F3 + Clippy EM272 spread 1 m apart

Starling murmuration

All the sounds that are heard in this track were present in just this way in the original raw recording: there are no additions, subtractions, or effects. Quieter sounds were increased by +22 dB, louder sounds were reduced by -29 dB. A slight hint of saturation was added at the end to give a touch of warmth to harsher metallic sounds. Internal bridge sounds were recorded in stereo with a pair of Geofons (first generation). External bridge sounds (the final coda in this excerpt) were recorded with MKH 8040s in ORTF. (This is an excerpt from a longer track. The spectrogram in the track image highlights the parts of the longer recording that are included in this excerpt.)

2024.03.17 The Bridge Within the Bridge Without. (Excerpt.)

Nth of Lillingstone Lovell, dawn (S502) 0330¬0430 - 2023_07_08

Dawn in bushland near the inland edge of the Kurangk/Coorong lagoon. On the far side of the lagoon, towering dunes half-draped with tough green bushes seclude and protect the lagoon from the ever-audible roaring ocean. Skimming above the ocean, a storm intermittently spears the waves with lightning, and rolls its thunder inland, towards the dawning bushland.

2025.12.06 Dawn Chorus with Thunder. Kurangk/Coorong. Early Summer.

Wing sounds and calls from the local pair of Common Swifts flying by and entering their nest box. Also a few Swift bangers flying by and checking out the nest boxes. Other species in this recording is Lesser-spotted Woodpecker, Greenfinch, Blue tit and Great tit. 

Recorded on a Zoom F3 with two XLR Clippy EM 272.

Sandtorp, Uppland, July 2025

Common Swift - wingsounds and calls.

A newly arrived singing Willow warbler. Notable other bird species in this recording are also Blackbird, Wren, Wood pigeon, Tree pipit, Pied flycatcher and Common Crane. 

Recorded on a Zoom F3 with a Tellinga Modular parabola. 

Velamstorp, Uppland, May 2025

Willow warbler

Recording of white storks from 2022. Forgot about this track - recorded in Slowinski National Park. 

White Stork Nest - Summer 2022

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Starling murmuration

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