Always a bit horrifying to hear Tawny Owls calling up close. Listen after 2 minutes or so...

Storön, Gysinge, Uppland. March 1, 2025.
Zoom F3 + Clippy EM272

Tawny Owls courting

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. 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

Wicked Owls - Midnight Primeval Beech Forest, Slovenia October 4. 2025

Thunderstorm in heavy rain, some limiting on it due to levels. Testing out DIY rain cover. ORTF. 

Thunderstorm and Heavy Rain

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

Tawny Owls courting

Bo Söderström

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