River Teign upstream from Teign Gorge, with early spring birds

Very peaceful! Gentle babbling of River Teign as it runs through a line of copse between fields as it approaches the so-called Teign Gorge (Drewsteignton, Devon, UK). Bird sounds are mostly robin, with the odd chaffinch, though there's a brief episode with a flock of jackdaws having a flyabout; Near the end we hear blue tit and apparent hints of coal tit and long-tailed tit.

I made this recording on the afternoon of 5 March 2013, really just as something to do with the second recorder while I made a wind chimes recording a little way upstream (https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/700446/ ). I had to edit out two major disturbances — the first being a very low-flying jet aeroplane, and the second a lengthier disturbance from an almost as low-flying helicopter. Both sounded impressive, but just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!

Note that the recorder was facing upstream, so that the river sound is in the left half, and we have a field extending up a small hill on the right, with a little copse on that slope.

There's a much earlier version of this recording on Freesound, but this one is much preferable because of its much better stereo imaging.

This recording taking place, EXCEPT that the recorder you can see easily is not for this, but for the concurrent wind chimes recording. The recorder for this one — at least its light grey furry windshield — is just visible as a faint distant light grey speck almost at the far end of the grassy terrain, immediately left of the top of the nearer fence post, and facing this way.

Techie stuff

The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield (original, more effective, version), placed on a Hama Mini tripod, which I'd regard as not just 'mini' but tiny.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield, and more recent processing with the A1 Stereo Control VST plugin (160% widening).

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