Digital Download Catalogue — Natural Soundscapes (Section 2)
— Cornish Seas and Cliffs

Classified listing

Cornish Seas and Cliffs

• Dawn chorus, from south side of Cot Valley — higher position

  4 June 2016
  

  Concurrent recording made beside the same track as the lower-position recording, a little way seaward and so rather higher up, and indeed the recorder perched on a fence post on top of an overgrown drystone wall to give it a particularly high and commanding view, not just over the valley, but taking in the expanse of high ground all around, basically to maximize the blackbird count in the chorus! In this case for some time we have the odd blackbird rather closer, albeit not in full foreground, as a foil to the distant multitudes — 53'

  
  Recording code: 160604_r4-02

• Dawn chorus, from south side of Cot Valley — lower position

  4 June 2016

  Retake of a recording I made in 2015, from beside the highest track on the south side of the valley, still fairly high up but where it's sloping down inland towards some houses. This includes a particularly wonderful full half-hour of distant blackbirds in all directions — very likely a hundred or more of them! — 107'

  
  Recording code: 160604_r5-02+03

• Peaceful sea at night with the 'devil bird' (2)

  9 June 2016
  

  From a position a little further SSE, with clearer sea sound, and including the most hair-raising close encounter with one of these little funny-bunnies that I've ever recorded — 57'

  
  Recording code: 160609_r5-01+02

•  Peaceful sea at night with the 'devil bird' (1)

  9 June 2016

  Recorded in the darkest hours of the night just a little SSE of the mouth of the Cot Valley, near Cape Cornwall, St Just, Cornwall, UK.

  Bafflingly bizarre, with echoes for 'sensitive' people of tormented spirits, tortured children, demons, sorcery — whatever! — But a powerful life-affirming experience to behold if you set aside any occult or metaphysical scenarios and keep it clear in your mind that these are relatively small and vulnerable seabirds — the Manx Shearwater. I could listen for hours to this gentle sea sound here in the darkest hours of night, with these funny weirdo seabirds doing their invisible party pieces, and the odd one giving one creepy feelings as it flies, perhaps closely, directly overhead, uttering that sound… — and of course you can't even see what's doing it! — 77'

  
  Recording code: 160609_r4-01+02

• Seaward aspect of Boscastle blowhole system — whoomphy booms aplenty!

  2 October 2016
  

  It's weird! The Boscastle Harbour blowhole is so well-known, yet I've still not found mention of blowhole activity on the other (seaward) side of Penally Hill (and Penally Point), which bounds the north side of the harbour. Yet when I've investigated that seaward side of the hill I've found various centres of blowhole activity. This appears to be the loudest, and I'm not clear as to what extent jets of spray come out this side from those impressive whoomphy booms, for the rugged shape of the cliff along here, cut by various caves, hides a lot of the most audible events from view.
  
  This particular very loud cave action seems to me to coincide reasonably with where I'd expect the harbour blowhole would be getting its intake, but for all I know, it might be an independent phenomenon.
  
  As well as the loud stuff on the right, there are often discreet breathy sounds to the left, which are suggestive of incipient blowhole activity there — probably requiring different swell / tide conditions for it to really make its mark. — 103'

  
  Recording code: 161002_r4-04

• Seaward aspect of Boscastle blowhole system — another blowhole!

  2 October 2016
  

  The unsung Boscastle blowholes!
  
  It's weird! The Boscastle Harbour blowhole is so well-known, yet I've still not found mention anywhere of blowhole activity on the other (seaward) side of Penally Hill (and Penally Point), which bounds the north side of the harbour. Yet when I've investigated that seaward side of the hill I've found various centres of what appears to be blowhole activity.
  
  As well as the loud stuff on the left from around the back end of the well-known Boscastle Harbour blowhole, something is going on directly below this recorder. — And when the loud whoomphy booms on the left give over as the tide changes further, the activity transfers to here, with subterranean booms immediately below us, each followed by a jet of spray. I never saw those jets, but their splashdowns were very audible. — 103'

  
  Recording code: 161002_r5-03

• Beeny Cliff — Peaceful sea with menaces, from by Coast Path

  29 October 2016

  Lazy-sounding very deep booms punctuate this idyllic soundscape just slightly above the coast path, as the sea interacts with clefts and unexpected ends within the cave system below and presumably right underneath us. This is more or less identical to what you'd hear if you stood and listened on the coast path in the vicinity of its closest point to the recorder then. — 107'

  
  Recording code: 161029_r4-03+04

• Beeny Cliff — Peaceful sea with menaces, from top of main alcove

  29 October 2016
  

  At last I got what I consider an ideal balance of the different sound elements from the alcove-top cliff edge. Like the fencepost recording in this session, this gives a really interesting panorama, with sea dramatics on distant cliffs on the left side, and foreground sea action and cave rumbles and booms in the right half.
  
  We're sufficiently shielded from the alcove sea sound for it never to be overwhelming, while it still remains distinct — and the fluctuations in the level of foreground and background sea sound bring about an ongoing shifting-around of the main centre of attention between foreground (more or less right) and background (left), making this a particularly engaging and interesting 'listen'. The earlier part of the recording has mostly 'direct-hit' booms rather than rumbles, and then the rising tide causes those to give way to only small booms and rumbles, these in turn to leading into more concerted mutterings, rumblings and rumble-booms. — 105'

  
  Recording code: 161029_r5-05

• Sea pandemonium and deep booms in cliff alcove by Droskyn Point, Perranporth

  22 January 2017
  

  It's pandemonium time as each wave piles into this narrow-cut cliff alcove, trying to rebound outwards, fighting against further incoming waves as it does so. The booms from the caves / fissures therein are satisfyingly deep and heavy. — 27'

  
  Recording code: 170122_r4-02

• Crashing and thundering breakers by Chapel Porth

  22 January 2017
  

  Thrilling sound of close breakers, albeit not the largest, crashing and thundering, the recording made from unofficial relatively low exposed contouring clifftop track on the seaward flank of Mulgram Hill, just round to the south-west of Chapel Porth, St Agnes, Cornwall, UK. Recorder was facing out to sea, with the waves coming towards it. — 47'

  
  Recording code: 170122_r4-01

•  Writhing sea and thundering breakers near Droskyn Point, Perranporth

  8 February 2017

  Clifftop panorama of inspiring gutsy sea sound with loud and heavy breakers majestically riding in on the writhing sea. The acoustics of this patch significantly emphasize the thundering aspect of the sound of chunky waves breaking, so this is truly a spot to linger and enjoy the dramatic quality of the sea sound here. — 69'

  
  Recording code: 170208_r5-02

• Writhing and booming sea around Shag Rock headland, Perranporth — from low wall

  8 February 2017
  

  The tide is too high for many waves to break here this time, but we have a general writhing sea commotion, with lots of glorious deep booms and heavy, subterranean-seeming rumbles from waves meeting the main cliff below, normally without breaking but still often sending up impressive eruptions of spray from the various impacts. The blowhole on the tip of the Shag Rock headland does sound occasionally, but isn't very loud this time and so might escape notice. Somewhere in the middle of the recording a group of larger waves come in, which do break, giving a sense of real drama then. — 68'

  
  Recording code: 170208_r4-01

• Thrilling sea dramatics by Shag Rock headland — from bottom inspection cover

  18 February 2017

  Hair-raising sea dramatics, captured in great detail, with quite frequent crashes, bangs, booms, thumps and great eruptions of spray — yet also an uneasily peaceful soundscape, full of a quiet writhing menace. We're below the Coast Path a little south-west of the Shag Rock headland, near Perranporth, Cornwall, UK, on a precariously steep slope that ends in cliff edge just a little further down, and as low as I dared go on the precarious narrow sewage pipe track. The sonic panorama from here is breathtaking with the chunky breakers surging and crashing in and then booming and rumbling as they hit the cliff base hidden away below.
  
  This was the lower of the two concurrent recordings made in this session (on 18 February 2017) — the recorder placed on a tripod beside the bottom inspection cover, where the narrow track gives way to steep broken rock terrain and the concrete sewage pipe is exposed on the clifftop rocky terrain. — 75'

  
  Recording code: 170218_r5-01

• Thrilling sea dramatics by Shag Rock headland, Perranporth — from low wall

  18 February 2017

  Hair-raising sea dramatics, captured in great detail, with quite frequent crashes, bangs, booms, thumps and great eruptions of spray — yet also an uneasily peaceful soundscape, full of a quiet writhing menace. We're a little below the Coast Path a little south-west of the Shag Rock headland, near Perranporth, Cornwall, UK, on a precariously steep and somewhat convex slope that ends in cliff edge just a little further down, and the sonic panorama from here is breathtaking with the chunky breakers surging and crashing in and then booming and rumbling as they hit the cliff base hidden away below.

  This was the upper of two concurrent recordings made in this session (on 18 February 2017), the recorder placed on a small tripod perched on a decrepit vegetated low drystone wall that runs down the increasingly steep slope to the actual cliff edge. This gives the wider and more expansive view.  — 63'

  
  Recording code: 170218_r4-02

• Loud regular surf by Chapel Porth, St Agnes, Cornwall

  18 February 2017
  

  A 'regular' surf, without the sort of high dramatics that I usually seek out, from a fairly low clifftop on the western flank of Mulgram Hill, by Chapel Porth, St Agnes, Cornwall, UK — and thus could readily be an excellent sleeping aid.
  
  At a 'normal' listening volume it sounds to be a vague and uneventful mush of sound, but at the correct volume it begins to sound impressive, especially through high-grade headphones, with a thundering quality and plenty of very low frequencies — and at that level the breaking of individual waves becomes more apparent, though nothing like in my later recording from this spot ( https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/680390/ ).
  
  As the tide goes out, the general roar of wave run-out increasingly masks the sound of individual waves breaking. — 71'

  
  Recording code: 170218_r4-01

• Gentle sea dramatics at cave entrance, Beeny Cliff south end

  11 March 2017
  

  Relatively gentle reverberant altercations between sea, cliff clefts and prominences, and the cave interior, with the ongoing trickling sound of a minor streamlet in foreground, tumbling over the slabby slate rocks and over the cliff edge right in front of us. A wonderful dark and menacing reverberance imparted by the cave and the immediate cliff surrounds of the cave's vestibule area, with a lot of gentle and very deep booming and rumbling from within the cave, with a curiously darker quality than equivalent cave booms / rumbles I've heard elsewhere.
  
  For this recording we're precariously overlooking the vestibule area of the southernmost of the caves on the more or less west-facing part of Beeny Cliff, near Boscastle, Cornwall, UK on 11 March 2017. — 77'

  
  Recording code: 170311_r4-01+02

• Shag rock sea dramatics, near Perranporth, March 2017

  15 March 2017
  

  Thundering breakers for a little while, then writhing sea with quieter deep rumbles, booms and occasional blowhole whoomphs (from the triple-vented blowhole system on the tip of the headland). This recording was made on the upper inspection cover on the narrow and rather precarious-feeling track obliquely descending the very steep cliff slope below the coast path — that unofficial track following the line of a buried sewage pipe. A thrilling and invigorating soundscape.

  Best to listen to with high-grade headphones. — 76'

  
  Recording code: 170315_r5-01

• Pre-dawn to early morning birds and distant sea, Beeny Cliff (first session)

  14 June 2017
  

  Starting with some quiet deep booms from the sea in a cave underneath us, we listen to a condensate from some four hours' recording just above the coast path above the main alcove of Beeny Cliff (near Boscastle, Cornwall, UK), capturing the sparse and peaceful pre-dawn to early morning birdsong sequence. Meadow pipits and linnets are the primary singers. — 75'

  
  Recording code: 170614_r5-01+02+03-new

• Pre-dawn to early morning birds and distant sea, Beeny Cliff

  21 June 2017
  

  Think of this as an 'ambience' recording rather than much of an 'attentive listen' one. A quiet and peaceful soundscape from just above the coast path above the main alcove of Beeny Cliff, near Boscastle, Cornwall, UK — the morning after the evening the guillemots and oystercatchers went absolutely crazy on 20 June 2017!

  Note that I do NOT call this a 'dawn chorus'! It's a very laid-back sequence of bird sounds, of a very limited number of species, the majority more or less distant, with a very open-air acoustic, but with the constant background of the sea action on the distant cliffs extending away from Pentargon Cove towards Boscastle Harbour.  — 144'

• Part 1:

  
  Recording code: 170621_r6-02+03-pt1

• Part 2:
  

  
  Recording code: 170621_r6-02+03-pt2

• Guillemot paradise! — Pentargon Cove, near Boscastle

  20 June 2017
  

  The evening the guillemots and oystercatchers went crazy — hilarious and thrilling!
  
  Late evening and dusk grandstand panorama of sea action on the cliffs on the other side of Pentargon Cove and towards Boscastle Harbour, with periodic outbursts of the raucous 'bogeyman howls' and 'Punch-and-Judy laughter' of guillemots over on that side, which could be mistaken by superstitious people as coming from evil spirits or witches if the birds aren't seen.
  
  For some reason the guillemots and eventually oystercatchers are much more excitable this time than I've known before or since. That leads into an amazing and highly comical crazed orgy of sound from the guillemots and oystercatchers during the dusk period — just as a stiff katabatic wind set up and trashed that part of the recording!
  
  Part 1, in which guillemot excitement grows very slowly. (In Part 2 things go really crazy.) — 86'

  
  Recording code: 170620_r5-01+02-pt1

  Part 2, devoted to the eventually tolerably un-trashed final section where the birds went crazy and the katabatic wind set in. — 33'

  
  Recording code: 170620_r5-01+02-pt2

• Guillemot paradise! — Pentargon Cove, near Boscastle (part 2 of 2)

  20 June 2017
  

  The evening the guillemots and oystercatchers went crazy — hilarious and thrilling!
  
  Late evening and dusk grandstand panorama of sea action on the cliffs on the other side of Pentargon Cove and towards Boscastle Harbour, with periodic outbursts of the raucous 'bogeyman howls' and 'Punch-and-Judy laughter' of guillemots over on that side, which could be mistaken by superstitious people as coming from evil spirits or witches if the birds aren't seen.
  
  For some reason the guillemots and eventually oystercatchers are much more excitable this time than I've known before or since. That leads into an amazing and highly comical crazed orgy of sound from the guillemots and oystercatchers during the dusk period — just as a stiff katabatic wind set up and trashed that part of the recording!
  
  Part 2 of the recording, devoted to the eventually tolerably un-trashed final section where the birds went crazy and the katabatic wind set in. — 33'

  
  Recording code: 170620_r5-01+02-pt2

• Skylarks beside Coast Path between Pentire Point and The Rumps, near Polzeath

  9 July 2017
  

  Skylarks beside the coast path along the clifftop between Pentire Point and The Rumps, near Polzeath, Cornwall, UK, with fairly gentle sea breaking below (the horrendously laryngitic-sounding seabird down there being a great black-backed gull). — 36'

  
  Recording code: 170709_r5-01+02

•  Booming sea and fulmars in spectacular cliff chasm

  7 May 2018
  

  A 'wow!' soundscape from within Zawn Rinny, a reverberant sheer chasm in the granite cliff formations at Gwennap Head, Porthgwarra, a few miles south-east of Land's End, Penwith, Cornwall, UK. The larger waves from the modest swell surge into this narrow channel and hit the end and often the end of side-clefts too, producing heavy reverberant booms, each immediately followed by an impressive-sounding splashdown.

  Also, once in a while one or more of the roosting or nesting pairs of fulmars in the chasm perform entertainingly for us — their cluckings and cacklings much enhanced by the reverberance here. — 96'

  
  Recording code: 180507_r6-01+02

• Fascinating 'split-personality' evening sea soundscape, with guillemots

  18 May 2018
  

  A beautiful (potentially sleep-assist) soundscape, on the south end of Beeny Cliff, looking across the mouth of Pentargon Cove (near Boscastle, Cornwall, UK), to the cave-punctuated cliffs beyond. We hear distant very gentle sea action on those cliffs, and gentle sea action much closer to the right, with entertainment from the guillemot bedlams (with razorbills) in the big cave across the way, to left.
  
  Those comic episodes gradually die out, leaving the final half-hour almost completely to the sea sound. Meanwhile, the  closer sea sound to the right becomes gradually more pronounced, so then balancing better with the sound-level of the more distant sea against cliffs to left. — 100'

  
  Recording code: 180518_r5-04

• Fascinating 'split-personality' evening sea soundscape — last 30'

  18 May 2018

  Yes, the last half-hour of the above recording, by which time the guillemots have almost finished their comical performance for the day, and the focus is on the soothing and, one could say, 'hypnotic', sea action. — 30'

  
  Recording code: 180518_r5-04-last30

• Hilarious guillemot bedlams in Pentargon Cove

  18 May 2018
  

  Is it a coven of guillemots or a bedlam of stereotypical 'witches' in a cave over the other side of the mouth of Pentargon Cove (near Boscastle, Cornwall, UK? — Whichever, they're hilarious unless you happen to be alone there in the gathering dark and don't know your birds, and are superstitious! Thankfully I ticked all the boxes but the last! — A wonderful spot to sit or lie back on the soft grass (avoiding some stinging ants and the odd adder) and to enjoy Mother Nature's sound and evident sense of humour. — 78'

  
  Recording code: 180518_forCD

• Dawn chorus of skylarks, by Coast Path between Pentire Point and The Rumps

  24 June 2018

  A full skylarks dawn chorus, from pre-dawn through to early morning, in field beside the coast path along the clifftop between Pentire Point and The Rumps, near Polzeath, Cornwall, UK, shielded from most of the sea sound, so it's a very quiet and peaceful soundscape. — 170'

  
  Recording code: 180624_r5-01+02

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

  24 June 2018

  A skylarks' dawn chorus to our right, and an echo of the sea, with some seabird sounds on the left, 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. — 180'

  
  Recording code: 180624_r4-01+02

• Thrilling sea dramatics at cave entrance, Beeny Cliff south end

  24 February 2019
  

  Reverberant altercations between sea and cliff clefts and prominences, also with entertaining collisions between incoming waves with rebound waves surging out of the cave. A wonderful dark and menacing reverberance imparted by the cave and the immediate cliff surrounds of the cave's vestibule area.
  
  We're precariously overlooking the vestibule area of the southernmost more or less west-facing caves of Beeny Cliff, near Boscastle, Cornwall, UK, listening to an intricate drama of impacts, roars and big splash-downs. — 144' (full recording 192')

  
  Recording code: 190224_r5-01+02+03

• Sea dramatics by Chapel Porth, St Agnes, Cornwall

  27 February 2019
  

  Invigorating sea dramatics, heard from the exposed and now rather dangerous unofficial clifftop track contouring the steep slope of Mulgram Hill, which forms the SW headland of Chapel Porth, St Agnes, Cornwall, UK. Tide was quite well in, but going out during final hour of the 2+-hours' session.
  
  Although this is a dramatic and thrilling soundscape, it's also markedly soporific in effect during extended listening, and would be an excellent sleeping aid for some people. — 96'

  
  Recording code: 190227_r5-01+02

• Peaceful miniature dawn chorus with a difference, above Pentargon Cove

  22 May 2019
  

  If a typical dawn chorus is like a large symphony orchestra, this one is a minimalist chamber ensemble version — in a peaceful position with backdrop of a gentle sea in the mouth of Pentargon Cove way below, and its repertoire of occasional oystercatcher flyabouts and outbreaks of hilarious guillemot bedlam in a megaphone-like cave.

  We listen from pre-dawn onwards, so as to hear the first tentative twitterings. In our relatively foreground 'chamber ensemble' of a dawn chorus, birds we hear (mostly more or less distant) include stonechat, blackbird, linnet, and eventually most persistently, whitethroat.  — 143'

  
  Recording code: 190522_r6-02+03

• Cornish coast - Land's End peninsula (Penwith) » Sea action with weird pulsing / grunting blowhole, at Economy Cove

  23 August 2019
  

  From among the general sea sound on the rugged rocky extensions of the cliff base, we periodically hear a decidedly eerie pulsing blowhole, which isn't whoomphing or roaring, but relatively quietly grunting instead (indeed, as though grunting to itself!), and sounds all the world as though there's some mysterious machine working away down there under the cliff base.
  
  The grunts and splashdowns are not a continuous feature, but come in groups, depending on size and direction of individual waves, and indeed on the state of the tide, being a mid-tide phenomenon. — 72'

  
  Recording code: 190823_r5-02

• Sea dramatics — strongest yet, from tip of Shag Rock Headland, nr Perranporth — 1 of 4

  16 December 2019

  First of four recordings from what I regard as a 'pinnacle' session, capturing my most dramatic seascapes yet.

  Powerful blowhole jets just below us, with a weird 'breathing' sound coming from a little cleft beside us on the left — with large waves crashing closely around us. This is loud and dramatic, with the breaking larger waves sounding quite apocalyptic! It's like my recording Eerie vigil with Shag Rock blowhole, but on steroids (much larger swell), and with the greater clarity and realism that the Sony PCM-D100 recorder can bring. — 30'

  
  Recording code: 191216_r5-01

• Sea dramatics — strongest yet, from tip of Shag Rock Headland, nr Perranporth — 2 of 4

  16 December 2019
  

  Second of four recordings from what I regard as a 'pinnacle' session, capturing my most dramatic seascapes yet. It's the first 1h12' of the lower recorder's second recording (total 2h42'). Its position is just slightly away from the cliff edge and 'breathing' fissure (which latter is just out of earshot) to avoid getting caught by further errant splashdowns, but the larger breaking waves sound quite as apocalyptic. — 72'

  
  Recording code: 191216_r5-02+03

• Sea dramatics — strongest yet, from tip of Shag Rock Headland, nr Perranporth — 3 of 4

  16 December 2019
  

  Third of four recordings from what I regard as a 'pinnacle' session, capturing my most dramatic seascapes yet. It's the first of two recordings made by the upper recorder in that session. This and the next are from a slightly higher viewpoint than the two previous list items, and particularly capture the surging of the chunky swell waves from right to left, at times with an almost apocalyptic sound as they rear up and collapse. — 33'

  
  Recording code: 191216_r6-01
  

• Sea dramatics — strongest yet, from tip of Shag Rock Headland, nr Perranporth — 4 of 4

  16 December 2019
  

  This is the fourth of four recordings from what I regard as a 'pinnacle' session, capturing my most dramatic seascapes yet. It's the second of two recordings made by the upper recorder in that session — again, from a position slightly removed from the cliff edge in order to be more sheltered from the breeze, which was picking up then.

  As the tide goes out, the breaking of waves becomes more frequent, with more run-out noise between the breaks, a bit more like the standard notion of a 'surf', but still a wild and loud one! — 70'

  
  Recording code: 191216_r6-02+03

• Dramatic breakers, with gentle rumbling and booming at cliff base

  5 February 2020
  
  I made this recording on 5 February 2020 during an extended lunch stop on a hike from Portreath to Perranporth. I'd already made two (similarly lunch-stop) recordings here, in 2014 and 2015, with a PCM-M10 recorder, and they were excellent once I'd used software to greatly improve their atrocious stereo imaging. However, I was aware that with the PCM-D100 recorder model I'd started using in spring 2016, I could expect still better results. — 53'

  
  Recording code: 200205_r5-01

• Thundering sea at Mussel Point, near Zennor

  15 April 2023
  

  Thundering sea dramatics on the rocks at Mussel Point, near Zennor. So loud that you can't hear the powerful blowhole! — But how I enjoyed this wild and almost savage sea serenade while eating my packed lunch there! — 52'

  
  Recording code: 230415_r5-01

• Thundering sea at Mussel Point — more distant version

  15 April 2023

  Slightly tweaked version that sounds a little more distant and less in-your-face, and is easier on the ear. It's easier to hear details in this version, and the overall effect is more 'poetic'. — 52'

  
  Recording code: 230415_r5-01-moredistant

• Thundering sea with blowhole at Mussel Point, near Zennor

  15 April 2023

  Thundering sea dramatics, complete with blowhole antics, on the rocks at Mussel Point, near Zennor, as a chunky swell comes surging in… — 35'

  
  Recording code: 230415_r5-02

• Hilarious guillemot / razorbill bedlams in cave — zoomed-in!

  14 June 2023
  

  Surely one of my flagship recordings! Crazy bedlams in cave on south side of mouth of Pentargon Cove, near Boscastle, with the best conditions I've yet had to hear them. When one guillemot starts up with its 'bogeyman howl' and stilted 'Punch and Judy laugher', others join in, presumably competing, sounding like a slapstick parody of a stereotypical den of witches or 'evil spirits'. Through my using a simple arrangement to produce a faithful zoomed-in effect, one can now hear these dear little comedians as I've never been able to achieve before! — 89'

  
  Recording code: 230614_r5-01+02+03

• Pentargon Cove sea and birds panorama, from south end of Beeny Cliff

  18 June 2023
  

  A weird 'split personality' panorama, with quite different-sounding sea action on either side. To left, the small swell is breaking on the rocks to left of the big cave with colony of guillemots and razorbills. The periodic groups of relatively larger waves create a very modest commotion there each time, often making the guillemots / razorbills fairly difficult to hear, while the waves in deeper water round to the right, in and around the cave that the recorder is nearly on top of are not breaking in that sort of way, and we hear instead a beautiful deep muscular 'swoosh' as each wave meets the cliff face. — 110'

  
  Recording code: 2306118_r6-01