BIRDS AT DAWN features ten uplifting dawn choruses from across eastern and central North America. Recordings have been selected for their pleasing combinations of sounds, which bring to mind the bursting forth of life in spring and the glorious concerts of nature at the dawning of the day. Perfect for playing softly in the background while you’re working, or at the beginning of each new day.
10 tracks, 70 mins. (Compact Disc Version available here)
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PDF Track List and Descriptions (for download or viewing online)
Notes by Lang Elliott: Putting together this collection of dawn choruses was no easy task. I waded through over a hundred recordings that I had gathered over the past twenty years. I also had Ted Mack and Wil Hershberger send me their best. Then I put my nose to the grindstone and selected only the ones I felt were excellent, recordings that are at once immersive, beautiful, engaging, and relaxing. I am pleased with the result. Featured are dawn choruses from wild places throughout the eastern half of North America, including New York, North Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and even Manitoba. The sounds of dozens of species are represented and some tracks include the gurgling of brooks. Set the volume to a low or moderate level and then sit back and enjoy the striking beauty of some of nature’s finest compositions.
Playback Volume: Play softly for an optimal effect. It is important to listen at a volume that is similar to what you would actually experience in nature … our native birds, gently caressing you with their music at dawn.
Product Details:
Title: Birds at Dawn
Type: Pure Nature Soundscapes (stereo/binaural)
Length: 10 tracks, 70 minutes
Format: MP3 (256kbps) and FLAC digital downloads, On-demand Compact Disc
Download File Name: birds_at_dawn.zip (130 megabytes); birds_at_dawn_flac.zip (386 megabytes)
Date Published: February 2013
Recordists: Lang Elliott, Ted Mack, and Wil Hershberger
Copyright: “Birds at Dawn” © 2013 Lang Elliott, NatureSound Studio, All Rights Reserved (note: each track is individually copyrighted by the person who recorded the track).
Hi, sorry for the repeat but NVDA, my screen reader was being ridiculous!
Hi Lang,
I really enjoy this album. it has my favorite birds; carolina chickadees, red-winged blackbirds, eastern towhee, etc, on it. Hoping for one with frogs on soon; american toads, cope’s gray treefrogs, green frogs mainly. Green treey frogs scare me. Don’t know why. I would also love to see one with daytime anual cicadas on; scissor-grinders, robinsobinson’s northern dusk-singing, swamp ETC…
Not to be demanding of course and please forgive me if I come across that way…Brooks album will be the next one I get. Oh and did I love the meadow one? It’s beautiful…
I really enjoy this album. it has my favorite birds; carolina chickadees, red-winged blackbirds, eastern towhee, etc, on it. Hoping for one with frogs on soon; american toads, cope’s gray treefrogs, green frogs mainly. Green treey frogs scare me. Don’t know why. I would also love to see one with daytime anual cicadas on; scissor-grinders, robinsobinson’s northern dusk-singing, swamp ETC…
Not to be demanding of course and please forgive me if I come across that way…Brooks album will be the next one I get. Oh and did I love the meadow one? It’s beautiful…
Charlotte: We’re working on lots of new titles, including another one that will focus on insect sounds and that might very well include cicadas.
it’s really relaxing.Thanks to God who created this nature and hope man don’t destroy it
Yes, I do hope humankind doesn’t fowl the nest (even though it sure looks like that is happening).
I’ve been listening to it while it’s been snowing here. Nice to have the promise of spring in a snowstorm, even while I watch the birds come to my feeder. I’m really enjoying it, thank you!
Thank you Terry. I agree that it is nice to have the “promise of spring,” either in the air outside or else indoors. We too were having a snowstorm in the morning. When I went outdoors, I heard a woodpecker drumming that promise into the snowflakes.
I’m excited to finally see you make these available. I can finally retire my old “Dawn Chorus” tape. This is a birthday gift to myself! I’m looking forward to listening to this in my morning meditation. The only hard part is deciding what I will get next! I see you have one with whippoorwills on it, a sound I miss hearing where I live on Cape Cod, although they still occur in Truro. I’m looking forward to hearing that in the future. Thanks for making these available.
Thank you Terry. Let me know what you think. I crafted “Birds at Dawn” to provide a relaxing background ambience, given that you don’t play the recordings too loudly. One title I will be adding in the months to come will be “Voices of the Night.” I’m sure you’ll like that one because it will feature the songs of a number of nightjars, including our favorite the whip-poor-will.