Recorded at Lake Nuga Nuga, Queensland on a warm summer morning. The sounds of Pied & Grey Butcherbirds carry across the lake from the forested edge along with the songs of many other bushland birds. Crickets trill from the grasses near the water and the hum of bees fill the air. Australian Pelicans patrol the lake, splashing in the water as they hunt for fish.

Summer Morning by Lake Nuga Nuga, Queensland, Australia

On Saturday, 12 November 2022, South Australia, including the whole Adelaide region, experienced an uncharacteristic extended storm of unusual intensity. Several storm fronts, arriving from the NW over St Vincent's Gulf, hit Adelaide and the Fleurieu Peninsula. The storm has been described as "one of the strongest thunderstorms in recent memory",* causing flash flooding, wind gusts exceeding 100 km/h that tore down huge gum trees (many of which crushed houses, cars, and electricity lines), as well as flattening giant electricity pylons, leaving around a hundred thousand people without power. 

This recording, made in the Adelaide Hills (near Norton Summit), captures a sample of the first and mildest storm wavefront that day. (The recording begins at 10:30 in the morning. This abridged version selects two excerpts from the longer recording, chosen because of the poignant presence of bird calls audible between the peals of thunder. The highlighted parts of the spectrogram in the track image indicate the passages from the longer recording that were selected for this abridged version.) The microphones sheltered from the fairly light rain underneath a 'sweet pittosporum' or 'native daphne' tree (Pittosporum undulatum), native to southeastern Australia, but a 'declared plant' in South Australia ('a woody weed invading native local vegetation', due to widespread ornamental planting).

Travelling farther south immediately after this recording, I was able to intercept the next two wavefronts, which were far more intense. Although the storm was utterly awesome and spectacular (lightning bolts plunging into fields, exploding thunder tearing the atmosphere apart), it was impossible to find any spot from which to record the storm, because it brought with it an abundant lashing downpour of rain and wild tree-tossing winds. In the end, I could only just sit and experience it. Which, after all, is the very best thing to do, with Nature. (Most of the time, at least. Not recommended when it gets this violent. Although I have to say that this was truly a very beautiful and awe-inspiring experience; and, personally, I'm very glad to have been out there to witness it. I'm also contemplating possible recording solutions, in case this ever happens again... Enraptured by thunderstorms as a spatial music of nature. All that I say here is the truth.)
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*https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/why-the-adelaide-storm-was-so-intense/925471
https://www.sapowernetworks.com.au/data/313806/12-november-storm-update-from-sa-power-networks/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/18/australias-indigenous-people-call-for-seat-at-table-at-cop27
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Recorded with respect upon the land of the Kaurna people.

Hear the long version

2022.11.12 Storm above the Hills. Late Spring. (Excerpt)

The jungles of the Amazon are calm and still on a hot afternoon. There's a piercing insect chorus - frogs call occasionally - every now and then a bird chirps half-heartedly. Long version at https://youtu.be/l-v3GNgPR78

Lazy afternoon in the Amazon rainforest

KHAO YAI National Park - Thaïlande - 03 novembre 2022 - 23h50 - En compagnie d'Olivier Pichard.
Mes micros (B&K) sont installés depuis la tombée du jour au bord de la rivière Lam Takhong qui s'écoule à cet endroit paisiblement. Cette ambiance reflète l'étonnante complémentarité sonore des insectes et grenouilles qui chantent sur la rive. Au fil des minutes et imperceptiblement le rythme des insectes baisse laissant apparaitre une lointaine cascade. Pas un oiseau, pas un mammifères et quelques sauts de poissons. Le temps ainsi à trouvé son rythme enchanteur.
My microphones (B&K) have been installed since nightfall on the banks of the Lam Takhong river which flows peacefully there. This atmosphere reflects the astonishing sound complementarity of insects and frogs singing on the shore. Over the minutes and imperceptibly the rhythm of the insects drops, revealing a distant waterfall. Not a bird, not a mammal and a few jumping fish. Time has thus found its enchanting rhythm.

UNE HEURE DE NUIT AU BORD DU LAM TAKHONG

UNE HEURE DE NUIT - Au bord du Lam Takhong

Recorded by night in the amazonian forest south of Puyo, Ecuador.
A mouse can be heard moving next to the mic.
Zoom H2n, widest stereo setting.

Amazonian night

The flooded pastures came to life one night in early spring

This recording was awarded the Silver Fox 2018. The Silver Fox is the overall winner of the annual competition of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society. This is the long version of the recording - the competition entries are allowed to be max. two minutes long.
Recorded 2017 at the Amazon Refuge Lodge in Loreto, Peru. 2 x AT4022 omnis in an Olson Wing array.

WSRS Silver Fox Award 2018 - Afternoon by the Lodge

Morning at Yanayacu River

dawn chorus of three species of larks in Daurian steppe in Russia near mongolian border
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The Songs Of Hundred Larks

30 June 2020

During an unattended nocturnal recording session in a patch of old-growth forest a rain and thunder weather passed over during late evening hours. Birds stopped singing except for a Common Chiffchaff which actually seemed triggered by the rain and thunder.

Vindeln commune, Northern Sweden (64.11 N, 19.44 E)

Primos, +6 dB, 150 Hz/6 dB low cut filter in post

Chiffchaff singing in rain and thunder

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Amazonian night

Cedric Mroczko