Over the weekend of 2018 May 11-13 I spent some time camping in and briefly hiking the beginning section of the Snider Jackson/ Rugged Ridge trail. BEFORE that, however, we'd driven all night and were exhausted just before dawn having not quite made it to the trailhead. After a beautiful dawn chorus, we pitched tents and set out to record the morning. Exhausted, I fell asleep while recording. When I awoke hours later and skipped through the recording before backing up, I'd found that around 1h 35m a Pacific Wren decided to give me a lovely song in the trees above my mic. After 20 minutes of a beautiful serenade, it flew down closer and nearly blew out my inputs! Unmastered, this recording peaks *just* under 0db. (for the non-audio folk out there, that means that just a hair louder and the wren would have distorted).
Also appearing in this recording: Golden-crowned Kinglets, a Pacific-slope Flycatcher, and an insistent-if-distant woodpecker of some sort.
