The Third Silence

Dawn in the Bunyaroo gorge, in Ikara/Flinders Ranges. Red-Capped Robin and

Dawn in the Bunyaroo gorge, in Ikara/Flinders Ranges. Red-Capped Robin and

The sound of the first light dusting of snow of winter, falling on the dead leaves in the forest.

A very autumnal (and Nuthatch-y) dawn chorus deep in a creekline in Schönbuch, here in Tübingen. Recorded November 2024.

Crickets and a bit of wind through the dry wheat one late summer evening, along the Ammertal in Tübingen.

An hour after sunrise at the deer hut on Dickenberg during the rut. A stag calls, but at this hour it's mostly the morning chorus of birds, a rather persistent Jay, and a Woodpecker pecking on the tree the microphones were secured to.

In late 2021, we spent a week camping near Lake Hattah in the mallee in norwest Victoria, AU. The lakes had filled over winter, and the first night was one of the most impressive soundscapes I'd ever heard, thousands of pobblebonks and other frogs echoing around a huge lake. It's not captured overly well in this recording, but the way calls of thousands of frog calls ricochet around a large lake was truly amazing.

The main species are Pobblebonk (the deeper "donk" calls), I think Uperoleia laevigata (the higher pitched "reekkk" frog calls), as well as some coots, moorhen, ducks, and cockatoos.

You can see the photos from that trip here.

The dawn birdcalls from a small patch of woods in Tübingen city. A lot of birds, and a bit of distant city bustle.

The evening bells of several churches in Moneglia reverberate around the bay, as a blackbird calls and the waves crash on the distant breakwater.

This recording starts quietly just before dawn with the very first birds of the morning, but soon rises to a cacophony of many different birds. Later, the frogs kick in. Recorded May 2024.