Set in Manuel Antonio in Costa Rica, this recording was made just after dawn and part of an hour long soundscape. Hear the wattled bellbird with white-shouldered tanagers in the tree tops and the running motor like engine of the white-necked jacobin (small hummingbird)

January 2009 06:30

Recorder SD 722

Microphone: mkh-40/30 ms

tripod mounted with windjammer.

Temp: 82f

Humidity:85%

Winds: calm

Anthrophony: some boat sounds in the distant.

Recordist: Martyn Stewart