On 3rd June I was woken up at 4.30 in the morning by the cacophony coming through the open bedroom window. It was just the birds celebrating another summers day! I popped into the office and got my Olympus digital voice recorder and placed it on the lawn for half an hour. Here is a 5 minute extract from that wall of bird sound (Eat your heart out Phil Spector). Click the button below to hear it, or download by right clicking the link and “save as”.
Download Dawn Chorus in the Cych Valley West Wales
If you have an email programme which plays a sound when new mail arrives, here is a 15 second clip of this birdsong, nicely faded at the beginning and the end for you to use. For instructions on how to use it in Outlook, go here and in Thunderbird, go here.
You can download the clip in WAV format by clicking here. (WAV should work in all Email programmes)
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Bydd eich ateb yn cael ei cymedroli, ac ni fydd yn ymaddangos yn syth. Medrwch paratoi eich tecst yn y rhaglen word cyn ei rhoi yn y bocs, ond ni fydd elfennau megis trwmder tecst a lliw yn ymddangos.
Lovely! Is that a stream I can hear too?
Hi Carolyn, The stream is 20 yards away, and very low. It might just be audible, although outside at the moment I can’t hear it at all. Believe it or not, the background noise is just the dense chatter of loads of other birds in the background, as there was no wind at the time to carry it away and being valley the sound just seems to hang around.
Hi Jeremy, That’s stunning – well done for getting up in the small hours and giving us such a lovely, atmospheric recording. They certainly know how to sing in Wales.
Very Pink Floyd, I’d like to sample this for our next CD, it’s very atmospheric, Thanks Jeremy.
I have a full 30 minute recording if you need it. It’s filed in my collection under “Charlie Parker”