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During a mid-March visit to Big Bend National Park in Texas, I recorded this immersive binaural soundscape at dawn in Santa Elena Canyon. It features wind blowing through a dense thicket of Carrizo Cane (an invasive species from Asia that is now common along the Rio Grande), which produces clicks and clatters as gusts pass through the stiff, bamboo-like reeds. Ravens nest in the canyon and croak repeatedly as they fly up and down the Rio Grande River, their calls echoing off the steep cliffs above. Such a pleasing, enveloping mix of the sounds of the wind, ravens and reeds!. Please wear headphones for optimal immersion!

Recorded by Lang Elliott on March 17, 2021 shortly before sunrise. © Lang Elliott, All Rights Reserved.

Wind, Ravens, Reeds

Enjoy this engaging binaural recording featuring the variable plops and splats of water dripping from a bluff and landing on wet stones and in shallow pools. Listen also for the occasional musical trills of Eastern Screech-Owls. 

The "Grotto" is a limestone overhang found along a tributary of the Sabinal river in Lost Maples State Natural Area, located in the Hill Country of Texas. Please wear headphones! Recorded April 19, 2021 at around 11pm. © Lang Elliott. All Rights Reserved.

Grotto Drip 2021

Enjoy this lovely late winter dawn chorus recorded around 7am on March 30, 2022, in Shindagin Hollow, near Brooktondale NY. Various birds sound off against a backdrop of the gurgle of water flowing over beaver dams. Species heard include Blue Jay, Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Hairy Woodpecker, Mallard, and American Crow (and perhaps more that I didn't notice?). Temperature was around 28F with no wind.

© Lang Elliott, musicofnature.org

The Leading Edge of Spring

A Coqui chorus from Puerto Rico, recorded next to a small forest stream. Early am, 22 March 2013. El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico. An immersive binaural soundscape recording ... please listen using headphones.

NOTE: This is one of a series of recordings I made during the night of March 21-22, as I hiked up the south slopes of El Yunque National Forest in the dead of the night. At first I was overwhelmed by the choruses ... they were much too cacophonous to suit my fancy. But at higher altitudes in the wee hours of the morning, things settled down and I got some very nice mixtures of sounds ... magical and hypnotic soundscapes that soothed my mind and drew me effortlessly and completely into my natural surroundings, erasing any thoughts of the outside world.

Coqui Frogs — Forest Stream

The arrival of a thunderstorm at the edge of a meadow in upstate New York. A light rain falls and thunder rumbles as the storm moves by. Two Snowy Tree Crickets call from nearby shrubs, their repeated trills given in almost perfect unison. How relaxing, but beware … this soundscape may put you right to sleep.

Recorded binaurally at 11pm, 21 September, 2011. Connecticut Hill Wildlife Mangement Area near Ithaca, New York.

Thunder Crickets

Wheezy calls of a Gray Squirrel at dusk. Recorded at Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. October 14, 2019. © Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Gray Squirrel Portrait©langelliott

Insects singing in early evening, featuring loud calls of a Hairy Woodpecker. Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. October 14, 2019.© Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Dusk Insects With Woodpecker Calls

Several Brown Thrashers calling at dusk. Hematite Lake area, Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. October 14, 2019. © Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Brown Thrasher Calls At Dusk

Beaver moans recorded in the wee hours of the morning. Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. October 15, 2019. © Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Beaver Moans

The "Scream Call" of a Barred Owl, followed by hoots. Recorded in the wee hours of the morning at Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. October 15, 2019. © Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Barred Owl Scream

Evening insect chorus with Barred Owl, Great Blue Heron and Eastern Screech-Owl. Recorded at Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. October 14, 2019. © Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Evening Insects With Barred Owl

Winter Rain in Oak Forest. Recorded January 1, 2021 near Ithaca, New York. Featuring raindrops hitting surrounding snow, flattened leaves, and icy patches. © Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Winter Rain

Barred Owls hoot and American Beaver chew and moan near their den. Recorded at 2 am on 23 September 2020 in Shindagin Hollow near Brooktondale, New York. © Lang Elliott. 

Note: This is a binaural recording ... use headphones to experience an immersive 3D effect.

Busy as a Beaver

Featuring a beautiful coyote outburst, set against the gentle gurgling of a brook, and followed by an extended dawn chorus. Recorded in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 6am, 11 April 2011. © Lang Elliott

Cades Cove Coyotes

A 10-minute binaural soundscape featuring the gurgling of Aravaipa Creek at dawn, with an abundance of bird song. Recorded 15 May 2017 near the east entrance to Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness Area not far from Klondyke, Arizona. © Lang Elliott, Music of Nature.

Aravaipa Creek at Dawn

A binaural soundscape featuring gentle crickets trilling and a lone chat singing at midnight. Recorded in Aravaipa Canyon along the Turkey Creek Tributary, which was dry. 25 May 2017. © Lang Elliott. Music of Nature.

Aravaipa Canyon - Turkey Creek Tributary at midnight

Lone male howling in the middle of the night to attract a mate. Sounds so sad and mournful, yet this is his "love song," and his state of mind might very well be positive and hopeful, perhaps even ecstatic.

Recorded around 2am on 15 February 2021 at Wolf Mountain Nature Center near Norwich, New York. Male was in a large, natural enclosure. © Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com. This is a binaural recording; please wear headphones to hear the realistic 3D effect.

Gray Wolf Solo Love Song

Gray Wolves - three different examples of group howling, given shortly before dawn. Recorded 15 February 2021 at Wolf Mountain Nature Center near Norwich, NY. The wolves are in natural enclosures.  © Lang Elliott, musicofnature.com

Note: These are binaural recordings. Please wear headphones to experience a realistic 3D effect.

Gray Wolf - Three Group Howls

Coyote Night Howls – a lone individual howling at night in the White Mountains near Alpine, Arizona. Recorded 30 May 2017.  © Lang Elliott. Note: Previously, this recording was identified as a Wolf, but that apparently was incorrect.

Coyote Night Howls

A binaural recording featuring a large flock of around 80 Evening Grosbeaks gathering near a feeder on a breezy morning. Recorded around 8am, 28 February 2021, in the forested hills just south of near Deruyter, New York. © Lang Elliott. Please listen with headphones for an immersive 3D effect.

There were also lots of Black-capped Chickadess visiting the feeder, along with Blue Jays and both Red-breasted and White-breasted Nuthatches. Listen also for  whisper song and calls of a Dark-eyed Junco, the drum of a Downy Woodpecker, the calls of a Hairy Woodpecker, and the high, thin notes of a Cedar Waxwing near the end.

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