Slowed abundant summer bees, flies, birds on Cranbrook Down — Pt 1 of 2

(Half-speed version, Part 1 of 2) — An immersive peaceful soundscape, the normal-speed version being at https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/814310/, to whose page I refer you for full details of the recording. What we have here is a deeply impressive transformation, with bumblebees sounding like you've probably never heard before — their abundance this time inviting more focused listening, and painting a huge, spacious 'landscape'.

This slowed version (an octave lower in pitch than the original), lasts some 2h 22' after editing, so I split it into two parts for uploading here. Part 2 is at: https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/814313/ .

What's the occasional sound like a couple of clattery sticks being struck together? — It's actually the 'two pebbles being struck together' alarm call of the stonechat, now an octave lower and with reverb!

Advisory

** This was a very quiet soundscape, and I've amplified it a fair bit to be a worthwhile experience in a more normal listening place. Be aware that the opening is meant to be quiet!

** Because of all the fine detail I strongly recommend listening with high-grade headphones, and also in a really quiet listening space. Also, through many speaker systems the bumblebees' impressive low bass frequencies could sound boomy and thus spoil this beautiful natural soundscape transformation.

This recording running. We're looking roughly west. Close in front of recorder are some low gorse flowers (just to right), and a small patch of flowering bell heather (just to left but colour not showing in this view). Both are popular with bees and bumblebees.
Recorder is facing steeply upwards to minimize acoustic shielding from the close vegetation and maximize more distant detail.

Techie stuff:

Recorder was a Sony PCM-D100, with two nested custom Windcut furry windshields. It was placed on an Aoka carbon-fibre mini tripod (low, to minimize wind exposure). I had the mics set at my default wide-angle setting — 120°.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield, and used TDR Nova GE VST plugin to drastically reduce low bass in the (very little) microphone wind noise, so this half-speed version wouldn't get overloaded by subsonic frequencies.

For this half-speed version I reduced the speed (and thus pitch) in WavePad, where I also used the OrilRiver VST plugin to apply a 'foreground in cathedral' reverb.

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