Geese Fighting In The Rain

Great Tom

A short recording of the sounds I enjoyed sitting by the river Wear in Durham having a coffee break whilst out surveying my patch for the annual Otter Survey.

A colony of Sand Martins buzz quietly overhead, occasionally within a couple of feet of my head, whilst chasing down morsels for their voracious young.

Road noise is from the nearby A690

Sand Martin colony by the River Wear in County Durham

Drosselrørsanger (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) synger på Sundet ved Faaborg på Sydfyn, Danmark. kl 20:30
Gear: Dodotronic. Hi-Sound Stereo Parabool Microfoon - EM172. + Tascam-DR-05

Drosselrørsanger (Acrocephalus Arundinaceus) 210523 0431

Early part of the dawn chorus in the village of Teffont Evias, featuring Song Thrush, Blackbird and Robin. The conditions were extremely quiet, so any hiss/white noise you're hearing is from the microphones (Clippy EM172 attached either side of a tree trunk).

Teffont Evias, Early Dawn

Ham Wall dawn chorus with river warbler - early June 2021

00:00-03:30 (3:46am) - River warbler with cuckoo, bittern, tawny owl, reed warblers and water rail.

03:30-04:42 (4:16am) - Later in the chorus a song thrush and other birds join.

As I understand it this is the first known river warbler in Somerset and the first in the UK for 10 years.

River Warbler at Dawn - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK

Dawnchorus

I am on bandcamp.com now
Two Thrush Nightingales in song.  Recorded at night beginning at 2.05am on the 20th of May 2013, in Soomaa National Park, Estonia.  This is the third of three recordings.  Some months ago I uploaded this same recording but a shorter version in 44khz/16bit, this recording is the full-length 48Khz/24Bit version.  Equipment; A matched pair of Sennheiser MKH8020 microphones, a Sound Devices MixPre microphone pre-amp and a Marantz PMD661 solid state recorder.
Recording 2502.
To help you find my other albums, here is a list of the names of the albums as sound cloud is not structured in such a way as to make it easy to find material that is a long way down or at the bottom of the page, so it is easier to search for the albums if you know their names, here is a list.
Put any of these names in the search bar and press enter.  
Central America . . . Belize.
Garden of songs.  	Forest Home.	  Out of the blue.
Jungle report.	Wild enough.	  Na Luum Ca - revisited.

South America . . . Brazil.
Xixuau   (2 disc production).
South America . . . Guyana.
Karanambu.	   Iwokrama.
South America . . . Peru   (4 disc production).
Otorongo.     	  Tahuayo. 
Europe . . . Finland.
Natures Song.	  At the blue moment.
Europe . . . Estonia.
Soomaa.
Europe . . . Wales / Ireland.
Morning Birds 3.	
Europe . . . Ireland.
Morning Birds 1 and 2.	  The joy of birdsong.	  Birds of the great Saltee.   Saltee Revisited.		Songs of silence.		Aubade.
More Suburban Birds.		 Suburban Birds (This one was never uploaded to sound cloud).

2 Thrush Nightingales - The 48khz/24Bit version

Stereo ambience at my camp site at Girraween National Park, starting about 12 noon. Zoom F6, Matched pair of Clippy mics, Jecklin disc, 9600/32. Rufous Whistler, Sacred Kingfisher, White-throated Gerygone, Australian Magpie, Noisy Friarbird, Crimson Rosella, Australian King Parrot, cicadas, crickets, flies, wind (the worst of which is cut out).

River Warbler at Dawn - Ham Wall, Somerset, UK

Tom Tookey

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