The Birdsong recorded on the Brecklands in the early 1990s by Andrew Flintham is about the most beautiful recorded sound in existence, at least to me – over an hour of unedited birdsong, now played in its own channel on DAB radio. It’s sad then that he said he couldn’t even record it now, noise pollution is so bad.

I recorded a group of bell birds in New Zealand in 2005, highly amusing characters that fluffed their feathers and produced in incredible range of noises as the sun went down at Onuku Farm Hostel outside Akaroa.

The Brecklands dawn chorus, the bell birds, and a recording I made of a group of fishermen pulling their nets in to shore in Kerala, make me wish I’d recorded more sounds before now, not just taken pictures.


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