Male tawny owl calling to a distant female (which can also very faintly be heard at some point in the recording)

Sennheiser MKH8040+30 in MS, Tascam DR680, 96khz / 24bir, Norfolk May 2014

Tawny Owl melancholically hooting from a perch

Atlantic Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus) at Donna Nook National Nature Reserve, Lincolnshire. 

http://www.lincstrust.org.uk/donna-nook

With hundreds of cows and pups only a few metres away from the coastal path it was possible to record at levels that helped reduce the roar of surf and unwanted noises from shipping. 

Recorded at 1am on the 7th December 2015 with a pair of MKH40’s arranged ORTF into a SD MixPre and 702.


Seal Sounds at Donna Nook

A binaural soundscape featuring several Swainson's Thrushes singing in Subalpine Fir near Baldy Mountain to the east of Oliver in the Okanagon Valley of British Columbia.  Recorded 7:20am, 28 June 2017.

This beautiful soundscape also includes the rush of a mountain brook (left channel)and the gentle gurgling of a nearby freshet (right channel). Listen also for what I believe to be six nasal calls from a young mule deer (fawn), sounding off in the distance at 6:50 as it moved through the forest.

Okanagon Thrushscape

Raining, goes dark. I am inside the hut and waiting for the cranes. 24-bit, 48000 Hz, Tascam Dr-100 MK III, Azden mixer, primos.

Waiting For The Cranes. Matsalu National Park, Estonia On September 15, 2018

On a recent trip to Ireland spent some time in Wicklow and explored Glendalough, a well known natural area close by. Although there was virtually no wind, it was raining a lot making recording conditions challenging. I arrived just as dawn was breaking and soon came across a robin singing high up in a tree.

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + Telinga Parabolic Mic
Recorded 13.10.18

Photo by David Mackie (Creative Commons license)

Robin Singing In The Rain - Glendalough, Wicklow, Ireland

Recorded by an ORTF setup (Schoeps CCM4x2) on a Sound Devices Mixpre6
Original recording in Wave, 96k, 24bit
GPS: -22.392431,-44.553263
Sound Ref:  BR-190812-07
Recorded during the Interativos 2019 organized by Silo
Download on Freesound here https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/479286/

Toads during the night in a pound, in Serrinha do Alambri (Brazil)

Spruce Forest in April

Crispy morning dawn. Cuckoo and black grouse are in the beginning of their concert and at the same time Boreal owl is about to finish his nightly performance.

Crispy May Morning

The track opens with a Wren in full voice, later a Robin makes some 'ticking' calls, nearby a stream can be heard quite clearly even though it was behind an earthen bank. Sennheiser MKH8020's and a Sound Devices MixPre3.  Ballinvally Woods, north-west of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland.  21st of July 2020 beginning at 5.10am.  Recording 3427.

Dawn Chorus - 21 July 20 - 5.10am - Ballinvally

Late summer day on the Cormorant Reef of Marjakari, Luvia, Western Finland. The  young birds have leaved their nests three weeks ago and are keeping flying exercises in the shallower waters of the shoreline.  The mosquitos are accompanying. 

A faint seven minutes with least motor boat rumble from the recording of nine hours.

(MKH8020 ab60cm, MixPre3, 32>24/48, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Late Summer - 15/8/2020 - Luvia Cormorant Reef

One Hundred Years for voices, orchestra and electronics (2020)by 
Yannis Kyriakides

Commissioned by Gaudeamus to celebrate its 75th anniversary 
Premiere 19th September 2020 by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Silbersee conducted by
Karina Canellakis, NTR ZaterdagMatinee, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Live broadcast and recording by NPO radio 4.

One Hundred Years (premiere)

Sound designer, wildlife/nature sound recordist, and qualified southern African (FGASA Level 1) nature guide.

Tawny Owl melancholically hooting from a perch

Daan Hendriks

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