Dawn bird sounds including skylarks chorus, near The Rumps, Cornish coast

A skylarks' dawn chorus to our right, and an echo of the sea, with some seabird sounds on the left, on 24 June 2018, from pre-dawn through to early morning, near The Rumps, near Polzeath, Cornwall, UK. This is an odd recording, which came out differently to how I'd intended.

What we hear of the sea, on the left, is actually almost all echo and not direct sea sound. As the skylark chorus becomes more sporadic, so other landlubber birds make appearance too, such as meadow pipit and linnet.

This actually all-night recording session had a rather involved little story behind it, and to save me repeating myself here, you can read about that in the notes for my full skylark dawn chorus recording, https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/667643/.

What's really odd about how this recording came out is that I had the recorder on top of the drystone wall, squarely facing into the field, to maximize the skylarks' sound and downplay the sea sound, and yet, weirdly, the resulting recording sounds for all the world as though the recorder had been facing along the wall, with field-related sounds generally on the right and sea-related sounds on the left. I still don't understand how it worked out like that.

I deliberately chose a position where almost all the (gentle) sea action was out of sight, so that its sound would be subdued and reasonably balanced with the birdsong over the field. Hence nearly all of what we do hear of it is echo from the cliffs that we can see from there.

The main seabirds we hear at times are herring gull (of course!), and, less frequently, great black-backed gull (imagine a ponderous version of herring gull calls, with an excruciatingly laryngitic voice!), with occasional brief piping calls of the odd oystercatchers.

Photo taken on 19 April 2009, from near Pentire Point — rugged coastline to The Rumps, the rugged rather pinnacled little peninsula ahead, centre. Note the drystone wall just visible top right, which continues just a little back from cliff edge towards The Rumps, being the boundary of pasture fields where skylarks deliver beautiful choruses.
I made this recording further along, much nearer The Rumps.

Note how the drystone wall winds its way next to the Coast Path (the latter on this side), bounding the 'skylark-rich' pasture fields. Further along, as path and wall near The Rumps, the wall bears right, still with the path beside it, but the official Coast Path turns off, bearing a little left, passing through a well-vegetated disused quarry area.
It was there that I placed my R4 recorder for this recording — actually on top of the wall, so it faced into the field, with its back to the sea. Crazily, I didn't take any photos there, which is why all I can do is describe the spot.
Photo taken on 23 September 2012.

Techie stuff:
The recorder was a Sony PCM-D100, with three furry windshields (Windcut, custom), and it was placed on a Zipshot Mini tripod.

Post-recording processing was to apply an EQ curve to compensate for muffling from the furry windshields, and, much more recently, noise reduction in Audacity was used to reduce somewhat the microphone self-noise (full frequency, not just the hiss).

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