504 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Nature Background"

A hillside above the croatian coastal town of brela, in the afternoon, featuring crickets, some quiet background traffic, and nothing much more. These recordings were done during my recent vacation in brela, croatia, with a zoom h2 set at 90° diffusion. They are also available as surround recordings (4ch) with the rear channels set to 120° diffusion. Just send me a message if you want them, they're just as free as the stereo ones.

A recording made on saturday march 30th 2019 right beside a creek at giant city state park in illinois. The beautiful, pleasant sound of the creek dropping over a small sandstone rock provides a nice background to the very "happy-to-be-here" louisiana waterthrush. The birds have returned, and spring is on its way. . . The annual re-birth in the forests of southern illinois. Equipment used:zoom f4 field recordersennheiser mkh-416 shotgun microphone.

City industry lake atmo recorded with mixpre 6 and two clippy em 172 microphones in ab stereo. If you want to support me, you are welcome to have a look here: https://richardatmo. Bandcamp. Com/. You can play albums there and also buy single sounds from me for small money. It's a way to support me. Or just have fun and chill with nature sounds. Have a nice day.

Zoo with lots of people atmo recorded with mixpre 6 + clippy em 172. If you want to support me, you are welcome to have a look here: https://richardatmo. Bandcamp. Com/. You can play albums there and also buy single sounds from me for small money. It's a way to support me. Or just have fun and chill with nature sounds. Have a nice day.

Behind the church, in the small village of praia do sono, toads are singing. Beach in background very far away. . . Recorded by a ms setup schoeps ccm41+ccm8 in a zephyx windscreen by cinelarecorder sound devices 633original recording in wave 96khz 24bitsound reference: bra170219t10same sound (shorter) on soundcloud https://soundcloud. Com/felixblume/toads-praiadosono. Http://www. Felixblume. Com/.

You can buy the full version of this soundtrack for only 4 dollar:pond5. Com/royalty-free-music/item/207394360-spooky-halloween-theme. If you like please support my works. Youtube. Com/@phobos212. You find me on fiverr and upwork if you need soundtrack for your projects. Fiverr. Com/share/op8rd8upwork. Com/freelancers/~01170005364ec4bd67. Music by misterbates.

I spent the summer in the south of spain. My apartment had a balcony situated on the. Corner, it overlooked a guitar shaped. Swimming pool and a small car park. Surrounded by shops and bars. With the. Ocean less than a mile away the sounds i. Heard each day were recorded and here they. Are: spanish town. All the soundscapes have not been edited. With the exception of a 10. 0 db boost.

A recording of strong north winds gusting through a neighborhood. You'll hear leaves ratttling, the flapping of a big tarp, dogs in the background far away, and, one of my favorites, wind chimes. The jingling wind chimes really get going towards the end of the recording. Occassionally a loud car drives by. I sat my handy zoom h4n recorder on my front porch for this one and used the internal microphones with record volume at 80. .

Ride old squeaky bike field recording with sony pcm d100. First its a smooth street. . . After one minute its getting more noisy. If you want to support me, you are welcome to have a look here: https://richardatmo. Bandcamp. Com/. You can play albums there and also buy single sounds from me for small money. It's a way to support me. Or just have fun and chill with nature sounds. Have a nice day.

Cicadas with urban atmosphere in the evening with little rain recorded with sony pcm d100 + clippy em 272 ab-stereo. If you want to support me, you are welcome to have a look here: https://richardatmo. Bandcamp. Com/. You can play albums there and also buy single sounds from me for small money. It's a way to support me. Or just have fun and chill with nature sounds. Have a nice day.

Laughing chattering young women ride by by bike recorded with sony pcm d100. It raining a bit and you can hear city background. If you want to support me, you are welcome to have a look here: https://richardatmo. Bandcamp. Com/. You can play albums there and also buy single sounds from me for small money. It's a way to support me. Or just have fun and chill with nature sounds. Have a nice day.

Sound of birds in french park. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Son d’oiseaux dans un parc en france. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

Sound atmosphere of birds in french countryside. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Ambiance sonore d’oiseaux dans la campagne française. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

Sound of birds in french park. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Son d’oiseaux dans un parc en france. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

Sound of birds in french park. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Son d’oiseaux dans un parc en france. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

This very happy bird-song was recorded in late winter/very early spring of 2012. It was a cold, partly sunny morning after a cold night, yet this red male cardinal was singing proud and loud. Recorded in a small town, with some traffic sounds in the back. Also, if you listen close enough you will hear some starlings in the background with their waking up chorus. Recorded using the handy/zoom h4n recorder and a samson c0-2 microphone mounted inside my home-built parabolic reflector.

Sound atmosphere of birds in french countryside. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Ambiance sonore d’oiseaux dans la campagne française. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

Sound of a rainy morning in sri lanka near a jungle. This sound has been recorded with the h4n pro. You can use this sound in your project regardless if it is commercial or non-commercial but it would be awesome if you could tag my instagram account somewhere in the description:https://www. Instagram. Com/florianreichelt/. Leave a comment and tell me for which project you used it!! :). By the way - have you guys already checked out my latest travel video about norway?if not you should definitely watch it: https://youtu. Be/aq9scr9cvwwthe nature, the fjords and the mountains are absolutely outstanding and they inspire you to travel as well. Stock footage isn't dead! make 2000$/month via blackbox!register now: http://bit. Ly/stockblackbox.

Recorded at night with external microphones using a panasonic lumix gh-2 camera,out of the window from 2nd floor. In this sound file i mixed two sound recordings, the chronologically second record i put first, the first record i put second using a little fade out on the latter. Some night bird interacts. Generalcomplete name : foxy_foxes_ii_and_i. Mp3format : mpeg audiofile size : 10. 00 mibduration : 4mn 22soverall bit rate mode : constantoverall bit rate : 320 kbpswriting library : lame3. 98rsoftware : lavf56. 25. 101. Audioformat : mpeg audioformat version : version 1format profile : layer 3duration : 4mn 22sbit rate mode : constantbit rate : 320 kbpschannel(s) : 2 channelssampling rate : 48. 0 khzcompression mode : lossystream size : 9. 99 mib (100%)writing library : lame3. 98rencoding settings : -m s -v 4 -q 3 -lowpass 20. 5.

This is a short clip from an intense thunderstorm, recorded from my second story queens apartment from an open bathroom window during the early afternoon of july 15, 2015. Some traffic and airplanes can be heard in the background. This clip was recorded using an apple iphone 6 and the zoom iq6 x/y stereo microphone with a rode dead kitten windscreen at low volume, normalized later. This recording lasts until the battery on my iphone hit 5%, at which point the zoom handy recorder app automatically stopped.

Howling winter storm ambient sounds:imagine you are warm and cosy in your bed listening to the howling wind and heavy snow outside. These winter sounds are the perfect background for sleeping and relaxing. Enjoy mother nature at her best!. My own recording is mixed with the following sounds:. Https://freesound. Org/people/jeffreys2/sounds/327772https://freesound. Org/people/jeffreys2/sounds/327771https://freesound. Org/people/felix. Blume/sounds/211463https://freesound. Org/people/krnd/sounds/90898/https://freesound. Org/people/courter/sounds/447823/. I have editing and mixing these sounds together. (thank you all for the beautiful sounds).

Birds singing out my window in atchison kansas, an american robin, a chimney swift, and some others i'm not sure of. You can hear the neighbor kid's tv on the other side of the wall in the background along with the roar of distant trains and traffic. Recorded at just before 06:00 this morning with lifecam hd300 about 4 feet from the windows. Edited in goldwave with a highpass filter cutting down some of the rumble below 70hz.

A little street ambience of sri lanka. You can hear some horns and some tuktuk. This sound has been recorded with the h4n pro. You can use this sound in your project regardless if it is commercial or non-commercial but it would be awesome if you could tag my instagram account somewhere in the description:https://www. Instagram. Com/florianreichelt/. Leave a comment and tell me for which project you used it!! :). By the way - have you guys already checked out my latest travel video about sri lanka?if not you should definitely watch it: https://youtu. Be/raxikjo5x0othe nature, the people and the overall culture are absolutely outstanding and they inspire you to travel as well. Stock footage isn't dead! make 2000$/month via blackbox!register now: http://bit. Ly/stockblackbox.

A swamp in holland 4 pm in winter. Not many birds there cause of the calm winter. Just geese, coots, tits and at the end the call of a common buzzard. The wind is coming from the sw 2-3 bft and is audible sometimes for a few seconds. It's grey day. In front and right of the mic, on 1. 2 km, the hum highway and the city of 's-hertogenbosch. Left on 400 m a small local road. (see geotag). Http://static. Panoramio. Com/photos/medium/84458608. Jpgthe picture is made the day of the recording. Moerputten, near city 's-hertogenbosch (den bosch), holland, netherlands. January 8th 2013 4pm just before sunsetrode nt4 in blimp > sony pcm d50cloudy, 8c, wind sw 1-3 bft, mic pointed w. When you use this sound it would be nice if you spent a voluntarily donation to freesound. Remind that this is not a must. You are free to skip this request. Please credit/attribute me and freesound. Org if you use this sound. Please do it like this: sound from http://www. Freesound. Org/people/klankbeeld/do not use an indirect link. Http://www. Pledgie. Com/campaigns/14560. Png?skin_name=chrome.

The sound of birds and distant thunder awoke me from a long nap, and so i sprung off the couch and grabbed my recording equipment, dashing outside just in time to record the arrival of a thunderstorm. Over the course of this clip, the storm gets closer and closer, until it starts to rain with increasing intensity. The clip is nicely unmolested by wind, and contains a nice background of birds. A tremendous thunderclap is featured in the middle, three minutes in.

Storm or gusty wind in the city recorded with mixpre 6 and audio technica bp4025 stereo mic. All sound are free. But if you like to support me. Please check my youtubechannel ( https://www. Youtube. Com/channel/uc8p5ewuxgvaabjffv9oi5ha ) and watch some videos about my fieldrecordings. Cost you nothing … just few seconds browsing trought my channel and if you like it, please subscribe. If you like the quality of the sound, please give the sound 4 or 5 stars. . . I would be delighted. Thanks for support.

A pair of owls stationed themselves outside my half-basement bedroom window in colorado early this morning around 12am. Unfortunately i only had my phone to capture them with, but it still turned out alright, save for the periodic vox-like breaks when silencing background noise. The hoot is obvious as to the source, but i'm unsure about the screech/cry that occurs with equal frequency. Is it the response of a mate? or just the yip of a curious neighbor dog?. Recorded with the stock application on my lg g3 phone and encoded to mp3 using the "video to mp3" app.

A recording made around noon on the edge of a woods located right in the middle of a major midwestern university. Throughout this entire recording, you'll hear the everpresent hum of heating and air conditioner units running. You will also hear faint conversations and laughter of students as they walk to class, faint sounds from a nearby construction site, distant rumble of traffic, the distant droning of an airplane lazily floating through the april sky. From time to time you will also hear the well known "beep. . . Beep. . . . . Beep. . . . " of a piece of heavy equipment backing up. However, despite all of the dominating background of man and his machines, nature comes through. Sincei was sitting on the edge of a fairly large woods which sits in the center of all of the concrete and glass and steel, the sweet singing of birds lasts throughout much of this recording. Equipment used: zoom h4n recorder using the internal stereo microphones set on 180 degrees for the greatest sound capture.

Please comment on where you intend to use the sound, and feel free to post a link to the work where you used it if you want. You don't have to worry about crediting this sound if you are using it for non-commercial projects unless you want to (e. G. Educational or non-profit activities), but if you use the sound for a commercial project you must credit the sound. If you would prefer to not have to give attribution for commercial projects, then take a look at the attribution-free license. The sound was recorded using a "dr-40 tascam".

Ambience of garden in a town of france, with birds, traffic and city sounds. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Ambiance captée dans un jardin d’une ville française avec des oiseaux, de la circulation et d’autres sons de la ville. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

A recording i made in may of 2013 as i was trying to get a good recording of the wonderful wood thrush recorded. You can still faintly hear the wood thrush in the background, but the nice surprise on this recording is the very clear, bubbling, trilling call of a proud little chipping sparrow. This recording was carefully made using my homemade parabolic reflector microphone. (*using my trusty rode ntg-2), and going into my handy zoom h4n recorder. I wanted to get as accurate a recording as possible so i bumped up the bit rate to 96 kpbs. I know it makes for a larger file, but i think it is worth it.

Ambience of city from a garden in switzerland, with birds, traffic and city sounds. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Ambiance de ville captée dans un jardin en suisse avec des oiseaux, de la circulation et d’autres sons de la ville. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

Ambience of garden in a town of france, with birds, traffic, helicopter and city sounds. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Ambiance captée dans un jardin d’une ville française avec des oiseaux, de la circulation, un hélicoptère et d’autres sons de la ville. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

Ambience of city from a garden in switzerland, with birds, traffic and city sounds. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Ambiance de ville captée dans un jardin en suisse avec des oiseaux, de la circulation et d’autres sons de la ville. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

Ambience of city from a garden in switzerland, with birds, traffic and city sounds. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. Ambiance de ville captée dans un jardin en suisse avec des oiseaux, de la circulation et d’autres sons de la ville. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).

A peaceful, quiet soundscape recorded in the midwest during covid-19. This includes the nice, soft, gentle song of crickets during the midday. Plus, about halfway through, one of my favorite sounds--even though it is man-made, that of a propeller airplane droning on through the bright, breezy saturday. Recording made on saturday may 9th, 2020 at 3pm in the afternoon. It was made in short grass just off of an asphalt trail, running through a beautiful woods at a very popular state park in illinois. Because of the covid-19 shutdown, the background noise of cars was almost nonexistent. Plus, the grass in the picnic area which surrounded the asphalt trail had not been mowed in a while, which added a nice touch of wild to the place. Equipment: sony pcmd100. Enjoy !.

Late august here in the midwest is the time for the loud choruses of insects. This recording, done in the backyard of a small town, features the classic"ebb and flow and swell" of the dusk insects. Since a park is nearby, you also hear in the background the excited voices of kids playing---maybe these youngsters do realize that soon they will be back in school and that the joyous, careful time of summer play and reflection will soon be over. Recording made with my zoom h4n recorder using its built-in internal microphones. The volume was set on 80. Enjoy, and maybe you too can use this sound-file for your own meditation, or simply thinking and taking stock of the accomplishments and blessings during the outdoor seasons and comfortably contemplate the upcoming dark, and bare and gray seasons ahead.

Hail comes inthis was a strange storm. Tons of lightning, but only distant thunder. The rain was nearly falling vertically. Audio description: may 20, 2014. Hail comes in and pounds a deck outside for about a minute or so, then fades and raindrops themselves take prominence. The wind picks up, so you can hear wind chimes going at it and some deep rolling thunder far in the background. If you’ve experienced high winds before, it will probably sound scary to you at volume. Recorded with a tascam dr-05 with a dead cat and no low cut. I got the mics as close to an open window as i could without being ridiculous. Cropped and faded in and out in audacity. No other modifications, so you’ll have to normalize it and equalize to your liking. Might be useful as a “heavy rain” sound, since the hail kind of sounds like that anyway.

A summer evening in a vineyard by the german town of freyburg on unstrut. The recording abounds with natural background noises (wind in trees, birds, insects). In the foreground, a little bird is singing, giving it all it has. I am no bird expert, but if somebody knows what species it is, i'd love to know. At 3:22 into the recording, the tower bells of the keep of neuenburg castle, located on the hill opposite, toll 9 o'clock. They do this by tolling a high bell 4 times, once for each quarter of the full hour, followed by a lower bell tolling the hour 9 times. The recorder is located on the top of the vineyard, facing across the valley between vineyard and castle. These are the rear channels of a 4ch surround recording. Recording conducted with a zoom h2, mic's set to 120° dispersion.

This sound was recorded via the use of a behringer b2 microphone, fostex fr2 and a home made parabolic reflector made from a tv satellite dish. The source of the sound was between 100m-200m away from the microphone. This has been eq'ed with high-end shelving to reduce gain noise, low-end shelved up to 1khz (to reduce wind and background noise) and the overall gain has been increased. The bird sound on the recording, is a bird called a "nightjar" which is a nocturnal bird. If you are interested in the build of the reflector itself, i have documented it here: https://www. Youtube. Com/watch?v=jyssecw1qf0. This sound is also available to listen to on my soundcloud: https://soundcloud. Com/jonmacmusicproduction. If you use my sound in any productions could you please put a link to my free sound, sound cloud or youtube channel so it can reach others!. Thanks for listening and downloading.

Recording of parakeets being loud in springfield park in easy london at 7:30am in november. This was an unintentional recording as i was testing out some new gear, this meant that i wasn't able to unclip the mics from my rucksack straps and avoid picking up the rustle of my clothes and some breathing. A train and canal boat engines can be heard in the background. This recording was made using a sound devices mixpre6ii and a stereo pair of fel em172 mics. Low cut on the sd which in basic mode is 80hz (i think). There is no processing to this recording other than to ‘normalize’ the levels. I do not require any credit or attribution. If any of these sounds have been of help, and you are feeling charitable, please do consider donating to freesound to help keep the site running (a link is also on the home page). Any donations are greatly appreciated!.

Calm ambient track. Winter woods / pinewood february 12. 41 pm (noon) in the netherlands near village giersbergen. Bram’s admin request-text and my answer in audio. Hello freesounders,it happens very infrequently that i post requests. However, i have an extraordinary sad reason to do so today. I don't want to go into detail in this public forum, but someone incredibly important and incredibly young in my life and my wife's just passed away. I am thus looking for an extra long recording of a peaceful "forrest ambience" to play during the good-bye ceremony. Something with some birds and perhaps some wind through the leaves,. . . . Currently the ceremony is planned for april 6th so i would need this before then. I know i can look through freesound, but i would like something specifically recorded with this in mind, something we will be able to listen to later as well, remembering this important and sad time in our life. . . Yours in grief,- bram & familywhat you hear;general-noise; soft wind in woods, sometime a bit increasing. A far kid at the edge of hamlet giersbergen. Far hum of the woods. Remark that the far high altitude planes are on a very lo noise level. Off and on craws and woodpeckers. 00. 00-02. 18 clean background-sound02. 18-06. 57 far high altitude plane- 04. 08-05. 42 people passing06. 05- 08. 13 clean background-sound- 07. 15-08. 12 woodpecker08. 16-10. 33 far high altitude plane10. 33-11. 44 clean background-sound- 10. 44-11. 32 (far) woodpeckers11. 33-12. 53 far police serine12. 55-14. 11 clean with some far yelling kids and woodpeckers14. 15-16. 14 far high altitude plane16. 14-26. 11 clean background-sound with some friendly increasing wind gusts- 23. 06-23. 56 woodpeckers- 25. 53-26. 08 woodpecker26. 08-end far high altitude plane and people. More recordings here search: giersbergen. About the area, national park loonse en drunense duinen. (text by irma de potter,ranger of this area) dutch website: https://www. Natuurmonumenten. Nl/natuurgebieden/nationaal-park-loonse-en-drunense-duinen. In the loonse en drunense duinen you will find forest, heathland and especially a lot of sand. It is one of the largest shifting sand areas in western europe. The wind can blow undisturbed in many places, resulting in an ever-changing landscape. By purchasing it in 1921, it has been protected for 100 years and we can still enjoy this brabant sahara today. You can roam freely on the sand plain. So there is plenty of room to explore extensively. Marvel at the submerged trees, enjoy the chirping field crickets and quench your thirst at one of the many cafes or restaurants on the edge of this nature reserve. Walking, cycling or on horseback: it's all possible here. With the wind in your hair and the sand in your shoes. You may even come across the sheep herd. The sheep keep the heath short and eat away saplings. This is how they keep the area open. The loonse en drunense duinen still has 270 hectares of shifting sand. That sand creates rather extreme conditions: the soil is dry and nutrient-poor. The difference in temperature between day and night can be as much as 50 degrees celsius. This ensures a unique flora and fauna. The animals and plants have adapted or feel at home in drought, aridity and temperature fluctuations. Sand sedge and various lichens, for example. And the viviparous lizard, sandpit beetles and sand bees. All species that love sand. In the last ice age, the polar winds blew sand from the north to brabant, where it remained in thick packages. For a long time this sandy plain was covered with primeval forests. Until the fourteenth century the trees were felled by people. They used the wood as fuel. The bare plain was filled with heather, where the farmers grazed their cattle. This intensive grazing and the sod cutting of the soil depleted the soil. This gave the sand free play. For a long time, the sand was a major problem for the residents. Villages and fields threatened to disappear under it. Trees were planted to stop the advancing sand. You can still see the traces of this today: find the submerged trees that only peak above the sand hills with their crowns. Date/time: february 15th tuesday 2017, start 12. 44 pm. Weather: 13c, clear sky, wind se 2-3bft , 1023 hpa. Mic pointed ne. Location; soft-wood-forest giersbergen (drunen), national park “loonse en drunense duinen”, drunen, noord-brabant, netherlands (holland), europe geo 51. 65566 5. 15774. Gear chain: sennheiser mkh30/50 ms, in rycote cyclone small, windjammer > sound devices 302 >tascam dr-100 mk2. Low cut 140hz 6db/octave. Level around -33db for background. Decoded mid-side to stereo.

Rain falling on my apartment. I´m the last floor and have ceiling windows. I move around the apartment getting different versions. Midway you can hear light music in the background. I also open the window near the end and you can hear a few thunders. Lluvia cayendo sobre mi apartamento. Soy el último piso y tengo ventanas en el techo. A lo largo del audio me muevo a través del apt buscando diferentes versiones. En la segunda mitad es posible escuchar música suave de fondo. También abro la ventana hacia al final y se escucha uno que otro trueno. We love the sound of rain from this apartment. It has a very specific sound. This community has given me so much i couldn´t wait to catch a good rainfall to share with all of you. Hope you enjoy!. Amamos el sonido de la lluvia en este apartamento. Es super específico. Esta comunidad me ha dado tanto que no podía esperar que hubiese una buena lluvia para compartir con tod@s ustedes! espero que disfruten!.

A peaceful, droning, relaxing summer soundscape of the midwestern forest. For starters, in the background you hear a river of wind steadily swirling around the oaks, and the maples and the sycamore trees. A blessed northeast wind-friend. The insects take over, and on top of that, a single, solitary bird, i think a flycatcher, softly calls his one-note. Even though this is the time of year that the visitors, those beautiful neo-tropical migrants, fill the woods, after several months of raising of raising a family, they are quiet, resting now. . . Letting the insects signify the passage of time and the slow march to autumn. In about 6 weeks from now, most of our visitors will have left. . . Back down south, their job of raising the next crop of insect-eaters done. . . And the woods, the forest, the nearly-dry creekbed will be packing it in. Recording done on saturday july 29th, 2017 at 11:30am in the forest near a creek with sound devices 702 and a rode ntg-2 shotgun microphone pointed straight up into the trees.

A late summer soundscape that is a favorite of mine. . Microphones set up in some mature woods about 60 feet from a large lake on labor day weekend. Most of the background is the insects, which are very obvious during this time of year. The swelling of their volume is nap-inducing (*at least to me in my opinion. )here is the midwest this swelling and subsiding of the insect wave tells me that summer is just about starting to go back downhill, after a feverish peak. Despite the covid-19 of the year, nature does not seem to have changed her soundscape. Life goes on in the forests. The birds, whose job of raising young is over, are still there. . . They're just resting and relaxing and listening to the insects as well i'm sure. Now of course you will hear a few prominent birds in this captured moment:(1) a great blue heron squawks out starting at 1:17 into this piece. (2) the alarm call of a red-headed woodpecker can be heard at 2:14. Other than that, just the insects singing their hearts out and the assortment of birds taking secondary place during this time of year. This was recorded on sunday september 6th 2020 at 8:30 in the morning in the forest in southern illinois. Equipment: zoom f4, microphone: sennheiser mkh 8060. Enjoy this audio snapshot of the subdued -- yet vibrant - sound color of late summer, finding comfort in the fact that, within four weeks, the colors of the leaves will be changing to oranges and reds and yellows. But, for now, there is still life to live in the insect and bird world.

The sound of margorabbia torrent (ferrera di varese, northern italy) quietly flowing. Distant birds, no clipping or saturated sounds. Perfect for quiet/relaxing nature backgrounds. Recorded with zoom h1n.

Recording made by fabian esteban beltrán with a smartphone on may 6, 2020, at 5:30 am in a peri urban area of facatativá, colombia (4 ° 48'47. 84 "n, -74 ° 20'11. 88" w). This locality has a patch of secondary vegetation mixed with eucalyptus plantations and very close to a main road. Numerous birdsongs in the andean scrublands, including great thrush, rufous-collared sparrow, yellow-backed oriole, sparkling violetear, white-sided flowerpiercer and the endemic specie of the highlands, the silvery-throated spinetail, among others. In the background some roosters crowing and barking dogs. Grabación realizada por fabian esteban beltrán el 6 de mayo de 2020 a las 5:30 am en una zona periurbana (4°48'47. 84"n, -74°20'11. 88"o). Esta localidad posee un parche de vegetación secundaria entre mezclada con plantaciones de eucaliptos y muy cercana a una vía principal. Numerosos cantos de aves en los matorrales andinos de esta zona en los que se destacan mirla patinaranja (turdus fuscater), copetón (zonotrichia capensis), turpial de montaña (icterus chrysater), colibrí orejivioleta (colibri coruscans), pinchaflor flanquiblanco (diglossa albilatera) y la especie endémica del altiplano el chamicero cundiboyacense (synallaxis subpudica) entre otros. En el fondo algunos gallos cantando y ladridos de perros.

Fermona waterfall in ferrera di varese (northern italy) recorded from the small pond downstream. Quite saturated but not distorted or clipping. Perfect for energetic nature backgrounds. Recorded with zoom h1n.

The sound of margorabbia torrent (ferrera di varese, northern italy) slightly upstream of fermona waterfall. Quite saturated but not distorted or clipping. Perfect for energetic nature backgrounds. Recorded with zoom h1n.

A peaceful ambiance of some pine trees in early, early spring. The predominant, lower-pitched background is the strong south wind blowing through the tops of healthy pine trees. . . An unwavering "swooshing" that cuddles and curls around the flexible, thick-resin-filled pine needles. Also, from time to time, you hear the sound of the wind rattling some dead and brown oak leaves; oak leaves which are still stubbornly hanging on to their parent tree. I purposely did only a very bare minimum of post-processing on this sound so as to keep it as realistic as possible. Yes, there are quite a few wind rumbles that i toned down just a little bit. I did not totally get rid of the wind rumbles. I did this on purpose so you the true feeling of " being there " on that mild, but still raw cold day of spring could still be felt. At 4:35 into the soundscape the trilling of a pine warbler is heard---a warble of warm-sounding notes fighting back stubborn winter. At 9:33 that hardy year-round resident, black-capped chickadee starts tweeting about. Recording made on saturday march 25, 2023 using a sound devices mixpre-3 series ii and only one microphone. I used a sennheiser mkh 8070. Enjoy this soundscape of winter slowly losing its grip, as told by pine trees and brown, crackly oak leaves.