2012-2013dawn by The Natural Contemplative published on 2013-06-21T16:27:55Z Two recordings of the summer solstice dawn chorus at our home in southern Vermont at about 5:00 am EDT. The first 30 seconds is from 2012. The second 30 seconds from this morning, 21 June 2013. This recording demonstrates what I have been hearing all spring: a dramatic drop in singing birds in our area compared to previous years. I have no idea why. Two different recorders were used, but the same microphone array. The 2012 recording used a Sony MZRH1 Hi-MD minidisc recorder. The second used an Olympus LS-11 recorder. I have raised the level of the second (LS-11) recording by 7dB to approximately match the level of the first recording so the two are roughly comparable. Genre Nature Soundscape