Mics in an anthill, wind in the pines.
Recorded on Exmoor in Somerset

Wood Ants

listen to the peeping tree frogs
with the odd falling leaf

https://underthebanyan.blog/2012/02/07/empty-forest-hunted-wildlife/

Deep Creek (lambir hills)

Taynish

Evening twilight in a forest of Corsican pines in North Wales. 
A raven roost, joined by Jackdaws and Rooks, settles down on a calm and warm September evening.

“To be able to see jackdaws, or any crows, unburdened is particularly difficult. Because they have come close to us and lived among us, eaten us even, all the family have passed blackly into our mind. Meaning has thickened their feathers. Their shadowing of our lives has blackened their shadows.”
                          - Tim Dee, The Running sky.

Gathering at Bryn-llwyd

On a warm September evening Ravens gather to drink at pools below Corsican pines.

At the pools of Bryn-llwyd

9/9/2016 6:30pm. Recorded in mixed dipterocarp forest, Matang range, Borneo.

Empress dusk

9/9/ 2016 20:00 Matang Range, Sarawak, Borneo.

Many species of Amphibian call in this recording.
Frogs identified visually at the time were: Harlequin tree frog (Rhacophorus pardalis), Dark-eared Tree Frog (Polypedates marcrotis), File-eared Tree Frog (Polypedates otilophus), Wallace's Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) Green Paddy Frog (Hyarana erythaea) There are more frogs to be heard high up in the trees and in the leaf litter and a Sunda Scops owl(Otus lempiji).

My thanks goes to Tim Myers who accompanied me on this part the trip.

Pool ( Kolam katak )

4 Sep 2016 19:00. Sarawak, Borneo.

A Coastal swamp forest after sunset as a (delirious, oppressive?) chorus of Brown marsh frog (Hylarana baramica) fills the night air. Up in the canopy Proboscis monkeys are settling for the night.

Swamp

Idle Beasts

The first show of dawn in the Mantang Hills in southern Borneo.

Pool ( At first light 9/9/16 )

Night in September in the Matang range, Sarawak, Borneo.
The frog chorus begins to slow as the night progresses.

Pool ( Midnight cadences )

Early morning as a large flock of starlings leaves the roost.

Winter murmuration # 2

Three recordings from the Danum river valley forest reserve in Sabah Borneo recorded in April 2017. All tracks were made in roughly the same location and recount the passage of dusk to night and night to dawn. This is by no means a full representation of life in the forest, rather a incomplete (lacuna of day) cycle that represents the great daily changes of light and dark with the animal movements and calls at these hours.

At first light 27/4/17

Dusk

An early morning in April under a fruiting fig tree in the Leuse, Ache N. Sumatra.

Under the fig

The smoke from our campfire disturbs a big male Orangutan. 
A recording of dusk to night in the montane forest of Leuser.

Leuser Highlands night

6 p.m. in the Leuser Ecosystem.
Dusk is rising from the shadows in a hanging valley above the Alus river.

Hornbills at Dusk

Agitation & Robin

Winter on the Avalon marshes. 
Starlings sream by in flocks moving from reedbed to reedbed.

Winter murmuration # 3

Night in the forests above the village of Ketambe in the Leuser ecosystem of Northern Sumatera.

Midnight canopy

3 AM On the old Common

A troop of Gibbons call across a shallow valley on a damp morning after a night of rain. A white-rumpped shama awakes. Recorded near Purut camp in the Danum valley reserve in Sabah, May 2017.

Danum in rain

West coast wanderings.

On the Isle of Jura, becoming a Red deer

The sea inside ( Jura )

In a shallow valley (exactly 53°09'14.8"N 4°23'51.7"W)

Gathering at Cerrig-mawr

September 2016, The Matang Range, Sarawak, Borneo.

Pool ( Dusk to night )

Tales from the understory
Nocturnal and twilight mostly 
Recordings by Vince Chanter

Trefoil

Pinned to spotlight

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