Summer Sounds

🎧 Summer in Wollemi

Dawn chorus from Wollemi National Park, an area of wilderness relatively close to Sydney.

🎧 Summer Afternoon Melody

Late Summer afternoon in the Angeles Forest at 7500 Feet Elevation. A constant steady wind blows through the Pine Trees as a Fox Sparrow and Western Tanager provide the Mountain Melodies. A Red Tailed Hawk, Chipping Sparrow, and Raven can be heard in the distance.

🎧 Summer Afternoon in the Atlantic Forest

End of December and it is a pleasant afternoon. It’s hot and there are a few white clouds. It rained the previous days and will continue to rain throughout the summer.

We hear some cicadas, insects and distant birds. Everything is in apparent stillness, until a warm wind moves the foliage of the forest.

Can you feel the humidity?

🎧 Summer Dusk Chorus

Between farms and a re-wilded area, between bushes and stones, much of what characterizes the visual landscape here, we listen to home to many birds typically found in Portugal: the Eurasian Blackbird, the Golden Oriole, the Cuckoo and the Nightingale whose notes you can hear bouncing back in the distance. Despite the summer feeling, the strange wind character, once a while picking up, can tells us another story about this place…

🎧 Stream in Mediterranean forest

By the Bazágueda River, a shallow, light-reflecting stream surrounded by Mediterranean forest, on a sunny afternoon made fresh by the trees which creak like a door: butterflies and metallic blue dragonflies were dancing in pairs over the clear water – so relaxing one could easily fall asleep leaning against a tree trunk.

🎧 Bonfire and distant crickets at Farallones de Sutatausa

These natural sounds were recorded in the small village of Sutatausa, Colombia, two and a half hours from Bogotá. This is a rocky and dry rural area which features mountainous formations called farallones. This recording, made on a cold, moonless, and windy night, includes a campfire surrounded by various insects. 

Nearby is a coal mine, which contaminates the water of the few rivers born in the mountains – something which could irreversibly affect the local flora and fauna and lead to the disappearance of this soundscape. Not a pretty summer intermezzo, but one we have to mention. 

🎧 Soft morning with water and birdsong

Early summer in the majestic mountains of northern Greece: a wild, forested valley under high, vertical peaks. Birds chirp, soft water streams, and wind blows over the mountain tops in this peaceful and calming place.

🎧 Pyrenean woods in a thundery rainstorm

A rainstorm recorded under a canopy of trees: gentle splats on the leaves and woodland floor, foregrounded against a backdrop of watery white noise and the constant rumble of thunder echoing around the surrounding mountains.

🎧 Summer Soundscape

Forest in summer in the middle of the day in the Netherlands.

🎧 Warm Summer Morning

A warm summer soundscape in an early morning revealing a variety of close insects and birds in the background. There is  a lot of movement on the ground and how the soundscape evolves throughout the one-hour recording gives away the landscape’s geography.

This place is an ancient neolithic era settlement: there are monoliths nearby, and the field in which the recording took place has an ancient Celtic stone maze that can only be seen from satellite photos.

🎧 Rainy Morning in Summer

After a storm during the night, the bird life is starting again and the drops are still falling around the microphones.

🎧 A Night With the Crickets

Summer nights are much fresher than daytime in the Laurisilva Forests from La Gomera (Canary Islands).

Then, crickets activate with a chorus that lowers its pitch as temperature decreases. If you stay there long enough, you will hear the crickets tuning. The place is near the viewing point called “El Bailadero”.

What’s your favorite summer sound? Have you managed to find it on earth.fm?