Dawn Soundscape from Wollemi National Park
Last winter I stayed at a campsite at Dunn’s Swamp in Wollemi National Park. It was wonderfully quiet at night, apart from the calls an rustlings of some of the nocturnal wildlife. Before sunrise, I put the microphones out to capture the dawn chorus, but the...
Life After the Fires – Blue Mountains, Australia
After the tragic bushfires which devastated parts of the Blue Mountains recently, much of the scenery around Lithgow is charred black. However, in some of the wetter gullies the vegetation was spared, and these pockets of green must have acted as...
Summer in Wollemi National Park, NSW, Australia
Although it is fairly close to Sydney, Wollemi National Park protects an area of wilderness which is relatively unexplored. My wife & I stayed at a campground on the edge of the reserve & I made many recordings in the area over the course of a few days. This...
Windy Morning on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia
Strong winds made recording difficult on this trip to Mount Kinabalu, but I managed to get one decent recording where the sound of the wind complements the birdsong & ambience. ← Previous Article - "Cicadas in the Crocker Ranges, Sabah, Malaysia"...
Cicadas in the Crocker Ranges, Sabah, Malaysia
Just after sunrise in Sabah’s Crocker Ranges, cicadas start buzzing like little electric saws. ← Previous Article - "Eubenangee Rainforest, Queensland, Australia" Next Article - "Windy Morning on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia" → Posts by...
Eubenangee Rainforest, Queensland, Australia
The sounds of the rainforest late this afternoon were wonderful. I visited Eubenangee Swamp National Park, about an hours drive south of Cairns, and took a trail which meandered through lowland tropical rainforest alongside a river. Yellow Orioles are the dominant...
Sounds of the Mt. Lewis Rainforest, Queensland, Australia
Recorded at 6am in tropical rainforest on the slopes of Mount Lewis in Far North Queensland, Australia. ← Previous Article - "Dawn at Lumholtz Lodge, Atherton Tablelands" Next Article - "Eubenangee Rainforest, Queensland, Australia" →...
Dawn at Lumholtz Lodge, Atherton Tablelands
I placed the microphones a few metres from a small stream in upland rainforest and left them to capture the dawn chorus. You can hear the raucous calls of Orange-footed Scrubfowl (one of Australia’s three species of megapode or mound-builder) as well as the unusual...