Name: Ouachita Trail - birds by dismalhiker
Duration: 2 min 4 s
Description: Recorded while hiking on the Ouachita Trail in Arkansas.

Celebrating my first International Dawn Chorus Day in Nairobi, where I'm usually woken up by Pied Crows, House Sparrows and Hadadas...and very audible traffic noise in the distance. So, I'm sharing a mixed chorus from one of my most memorable camping expeditions in Kitobo Forest, away from city noise pollution. Ideally dawn chorus is majorly orchestrated by birds but this is not always guaranteed. This day we were woken up by a mix of Black and white Colobus Monkeys and Red-capped Robin-chats, which made a beautiful dawn chorus. Enjoy every little bit of nature's music wherever you are. 
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Black and white Colobus Monkeys

I've been recording throughout Deep Creek National Park (formerly Conservation Park) for several years, and throughout all seasons. This recent recording was different from any other I've made here. It was dominated mainly by Australian Ravens and Magpies, although a few other birds make an appearance, such as what I believe was an energetic little Brown Thornbill in the foreground, at one point. In other recordings made during the same morning at other nearby locations, Grey Shrike-thrushes and White-throated Treecreepers, amongst others, could be heard.

What I like most about this recording is the recurring, distant, beautiful, wistful call of a Magpie somewhere much farther up the valley: its song is sometimes occluded by the nearer Ravens and Magpies; and sometimes, in more quiet intervals, its song reverberates gently, quietly, and elegantly down the valley.

Can be listened to with speakers or headphones; but quality open-backed headphones are especially recommended.

Unprocessed and unedited recording (96/24 WAV > 48/24 FLAC).

Recorded on land of the Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri people that is now a National Park.

2022.05.08 Coastal Eucalypt Forest. Dawn. Deep Creek. Late Autumn.

Final version: This best captures the day I just had.

...my own version of a 'Smoke Rings'

Summer - Day - Together

Visions Of Frail Light

Wooden Floor And Wood Bass

11th of February 2023.    I was not sure if  would go out early to record as I both wanted and not wanted to go at the same time, sometimes I feel like that.  If I was going to get up I would need to wake at 4.50am.  
I usually have the radio on for a lot of the night it helps me to sleep.  I woke to a Led Zeppelin track, so what time was it ?  4.49am, so I thought that seeing that I woke at the right time I would get up.  Got out of bed at 4.53am.  Left home for Ballinvally woods at 5.55am, arrived at 6.21am.  The birds began to sing and call at 6.52am.  A nearby Songthrush sang really well, so I got a nice close perspective recording.  After this I recorded various sounds in the area.  A lot of jets went over, so I gave up and went home, left at 8.05am, got back at 8.33am.  It was a calm dry cloudy morning.  I used only the MixPre3 and the Rode NTG-8 gun microphone (No second recording rig/Drop rig).  This Soundcloud track was made up from four of the five recordings, a sort of medley of the mornings work.  
Picture by, hedera.baltica from Wrocław, Poland, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Birdsong Season Opens - 11 Feb 2023, Early Morning, Ballinvally.

Direphosis [part 2]

A soundbit from my recent travel to northwest Greece. After the evening rainshower the sky cleared up and I got some hope for a recording session at the Vikos gorge. I had abandoned my original plan to descend in the gorge and spend couple of days there, as the rain kept on and the danger of slippery paths and falling rocks outweighed the chance of successful recording. Not to mention the fact that rain itself ruins it.
I set up my tent on the hillside at the edge of canyon, in hope of getting the reverbs of owl calls. Here you can hear the mellow chorus of crickets, some distant hoots of Tawny Owls and also the purring of Green Toads (Bufo viridis) which carried surprisingly well over the distance.
I must say that Vikos is not the best place for recording evening ambiences - the density of airtraffic is intolerable. This is the longest bit without plane noise I got from this evening and night. But I am still happy with that :)
At the edge of Vikos gorge near Monodendri in Greece. 
10. May 2018, 21:26.
2xMKH8020 (in DIY SASS), Zoom F8.

The track is also featured on this album: https://estlander.bandcamp.com/album/pindus-soundscapes

Album in Spotify

Nightfall at the Vikos gorge

Recorded while hiking on the Ouachita Trail in Arkansas.

Ouachita Trail - birds

1-hour long version on Youtube: https://youtu.be/NFVI7ioUe-4

It's afternoon in Maliau Basin, deep in the rainforests of Borneo. A late Barbet sings its heart out while daytime insect calls are waning. Empress cicadas prepare for their dusk calls and can be heard towards the end of the recording. A soft mist descends on the valley as deep darkness envelops everything.

Recorded in the Borneo rainforest with Sony PCM D10, Lom MikroUsi micropohones and BubbleBee Windbubbles. More sounds and stories at https://mindful-audio.com

Borneo rainforest - Afternoon in the undergrowth

DR0000 0170

Mainly nature field recordings from the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Some recordings are done in northern Italy, near Lago Maggiore, mostly in Val Veddasca.

Ouachita Trail - birds

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