About this episode

Alan Dalton shares his experiences and high-quality audio recordings from a month spent on the island of Hällögern in Sweden during late summer.

Late summer is a fantastic time to be in the far north of Sweden. In July 2024 I spent a month on the tiny island of Hällögern, field recording the many breeding species present on the island. This proved to be an overwhelming success. Because I had such a generous amount of time available to me, I was able to observe the birds carefully at the location, often managing to get my microphones into optimal positions. The result was a large amount of extremely high quality audio, which I will be ...

People in this episode

Host: Alan Dalton

Topics covered

• field recording
• birdwatching
• nature sounds
• Sweden
• breeding species
• audio quality

Keywords

• field recording
• birds
• Hällögern
• Västerbotten
• nature
• audio
• breeding species

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Västerbotten, Hällögern

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