Energize

Enjoy the following long play nature ambience recordings. A collection of sunrise choruses; time to awaken! These particular recordings provide unique wildlife energy, usually with animated vocalizations, good with a fresh cup of coffee. Check back often as we will be continually adding fresh nature audio as we record and process sounds of Gaia.

Salty Marsh Sunrise Chorus

Sunrise avian chorus from black rush, Juncus roemerianus and sawgrass, Cladium spp. dominated marsh edges where scrub live oak, Quercus geminata, Wax myrtle, Morella cerifera and Cabbage palms, Sabal palmetto line the banks. This particular location was closer to the Gulf of Mexico shoreline than it was to the wet pine flatwoods and so the birds joining in the morning chorus were primarily crows, red-winged blackbirds, gallinules, marsh wrens and other coastal marsh dwellers. Just under an hour of dawn bird call nature audio from the coastal marsh of the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. Southern field crickets call in the background. Sony recorders, LOM microphones, windjammers & dry bags. Raw wav audio.

Swamp Comes to Life After Dark

It was a challenge to compile ten hours of refuge audio & here is my latest attempt. There is just so much wildlife audio going on in this recording from around the shallow freshwater pond adjacent the visitor center of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. Listening to this audio, beginning as the park closes for the night, would be akin to camping out & listening to the night sounds - from dusk till dawn. Probably one of the most diverse ecological systems in Florida, shallow & wet flatwood ponds are usually covered in vegetation such as duck potato, cattails, irises, fragrant water lilies, pickerel weed, reeds, blue eyed grasses, Xyris, Andropogons, rushes and shrubs around the edges and so much more. All this native vegetation provides an amazing amount of communal, foraging and just general hang-out habitat for innumerable amphibians, reptiles and of course birds. Lighthouse road wraps around east side of the pond and leads out to the Gulf of Mexico and the iconic sun-bleached St. Marks lighthouse. Speed control devices on the road create a tell tale 'slow-down' growl as cars hopefully obey the speed limit driving past the pond on the way to salt marshes and Gulf horizons. Over the years of my field recording I've learned that freshwater ponds such as this one are preferred by several different frog species, such as the Southern Cricket Frog, Acris gryllus in addition to the frogs I hear in brackish & salt marsh areas such pig frog, Lithobates grylio, and green tree frogs, Hyla cinerea. This recording is a compilation of ten, hour long file segments, back to back, recorded 7pm night of May 17th until 6 am May 18th 2022. I'm kind of a nature nerd when it comes to listening long playing nature ambience. Interestingly, if you look at the audio wave graphics, the night chorus begins just after sunset and lasts until just past midnight where calls begin to diminish, although they do continue through dawn and the start of early morning bird singing. The occasional automobile noise diminishes after 9 pm-ish and begins again around 6am the next morning and I find it interesting for the most part the wildlife have acclimated to sounds originating from human activity. I do hear barely discernible background timbering activities early in the morning of the 18th occurring north of the park entrance along with Chuck-Will's-Widow wrapping up their incessant night hunting calls. Hope you enjoy the audio and I appreciate your feedback in the comments section. Sony PCM D100 & M10 recorders, LOM USI mics, windbubbles & drybags.

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