6am in late April and the birds are already in full flow.

April dawn chorus

New Zealand bellbirds recorded at Onuku Farm, Akaroa, New Zealand in October 2005.

New Zealand bellbirds

San Gimignano comes to life as starlings and jackdaws chatter in the morning sun.

Morning in San Gimignano

Crane Park Island

Rainfall at the back door

A guy's tuning the piano and he's making scary music.

The piano tuner

Frog calls in the morning

First light in Norfolk and the blackbird does his thing.

Dawn chorus starring the blackbird

A while in the woods at Deepdale Farm, with birds singing, the wind in the trees, the occasional plane overhead and the distant drone of an irrigation pump.

In the woods

Inspired by Radio Lento, I recorded the sound of wind in the woods today.

Nathan Nelson