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Recordist's notes
distant booming bittern soundscape ... north hide ... lavalier mics clipped to sandwich box ... bird call ... song ... from ... reed warbler ... canada goose ... pheasant ... coot ... reed bunting ... mute swan ... carrion crow ... mallard ... cetti's warbler ... gadwall ... cuckoo ... tawny owl ... great tit ... 2:48 a mute swan tries to drown ..? a canada goose in an adjacent lake ... only surmising ... too dark to see ... traffic noise ...
About the place
Mendip is a city of about 110,000 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 17 field recordings from here.
Recorded nearby
Rain ... on reed beds ... bird hide ... and a cetti's warbler
Mendip, United Kingdom
Reedbeds ... sedge and reed warbler singing
Mendip, United Kingdom
Bitterns ... and rain drops
Mendip, United Kingdom
Oldwood,birdwing
Mendip, United Kingdom
A pair of wrens feed their young
Mendip, United Kingdom
Quarrelling Coots and Booming Bitterns
Mendip, United Kingdom
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Sources & credits
- “London Drove, United Kingdom - distant booming bittern soundscape ...” by david m – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0