Name: Midnight Loons - Wagner Lake by MinnesotaSoundscapes.com
Duration: 12 min
Description: This track features the haunting vocalizations of the Common Loon. The ambient "roar" you'll hear is the sound of gentle night breezes swishing through the treetops of large Red Pines nearby. (One critical listener calls this element "sublime.") Recorded late May, 2008. Skies were mostly clear; winds were light and variable; temp. was in the low 50s (F).

Only haunting calls of birds, frogs and solemn sough of the forest breaks the stillness...evokes sublime feelings.

Thank you for this life-changing soundscape. “I now walk into the wild.”

One of the most haunting recordings I've heard. Well done.

Recorded this morning at 5:45am in Chiltern-Mount Pilot National Park, Victoria, Australia

First Light at Chiltern

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First Light at Chiltern, Victoria, Australia

Listening with good headphones in a quiet environment is recommended.

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Summer night on Hällsjön at around 1:00am. Eurasian Bittern, Common Snipe, Eurasian Woodcock, Sedge Warbler and many more species were actively calling 
through the (short!) night.

Hällsjön Wetland Night Soundscape - Sweden

Listen on headphones & relax to the sounds of the World Heritage-listed Daintree rainforest, Queensland, Australia. 

A group of Little Shrike Thrush whistle melodious phrases, responding to each other's calls. Superb & Wompoo Fruit Doves provide a bassline, & at about 1:05 you can hear Wompoo fly in, it's wings whoosh through the air. Towards the end a Black Butcherbird chortles, and the rasp of a Victoria's Riflebird is heard in the background.

The extended 72 minute version of this track has now been published as a downloable album available here - https://wildambience.com/albums/a-morning-in-the-daintree-rainforest/

Gentle Morning in the Daintree

Gentle Morning in the Daintree - QLD, Australia

Grounding In Nature Guided Meditation • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

This track features the haunting vocalizations of the Common Loon. The ambient "roar" you'll hear is the sound of gentle night breezes swishing through the treetops of large Red Pines nearby. (One critical listener calls this element "sublime.") Recorded late May, 2008. Skies were mostly clear; winds were light and variable; temp. was in the low 50s (F).

Midnight Loons - Wagner Lake

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

This new album was recorded at Sweetwater Lagoon, Lakefield National Park, in the far north of Australia. It captures the natural sounds of a tropical wetland awakening to a new day. Read more about the tracks and album here -  https://wildambience.com/albums/a-morning-at-sweetwater-lagoon/

A Morning at Sweetwater Lagoon

'A Morning at Sweetwater Lagoon' - Album Sample

Kutini Payamu (Iron Range) National Park is a biodiversity hotspot with a unique combination of New Guinean and Australian fauna and flora. 

The soundscapes of this area are rich and varied - and quite different from those further south in the forests of the Daintree region. This album captures some of the rare sounds of the lowland rainforests of Kutini-Payamu. For more information visit https://wildambience.com/albums/a-morning-in-kutini-payamu

A Morning in Kutini-Payamu

'A Morning in Kutini-Payamu' - Album Sample. Recorded in Iron Range NP, Queensland

An old forest in central Sweden with woodpeckers drumming

Woodpeckers in early Spring, Sweden

One of my favourite soundscapes to listen to and record is that of rainforest hills. Get immersed into the complex layers of calls as the day progresses. Long version at https://youtu.be/pXi0lIfNkA0

In The Jungles Of Borneo

Today's high-speed, high-anxiety social media culture is a 24/7 torrent of noise and flimflammery. As my sweet, now-departed mother-in-law would say, it's "crazy-making!"

MinnesotaSoundscapes.com is my small attempt to offer a measure of temporary relief from the madness. It's a collection of stereo sound portraits captured in quiet, remote locations across northern Minnesota. No music, just clean, spacious natural ambiences.

(WARNING: This material won't grab you by the ankles and swing you around in circles the way you might expect from some of your favorite music. If you choose to listen, be prepared to "throttle yourself back" and allow these nature soundscape recordings to settle over you in their own good time. If you're able to do that, there's a good chance that you might enjoy a rewarding listening experience.)

Curtis R. Olson
Minneapolis, USA

Midnight Loons - Wagner Lake

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