Last day of August. Pleasant sunshine, blue sky. Wind 1 to 2 knots, barely noticeable. Standing tall with motionless leaves, the trees are leaning into the warmth, letting their limbs soak up every available ounce of the sun's golden heat. Along the old bridleway, away from the grey noise of a cross-country road, quiet fields are revealed. Knee deep with grass. Waiting to be mown.
A hedgerow, beside a field. All around, the air thrums, with a feeling of wide open space. In the mid-distance, a flock of geese, slowly transiting the open sky. From near in a high tree, a rook calls. It echoes over the fields, a dry bark-like caw that spells the arrival of autumn.
In the next field, hidden from view behind a line of trees, a tractor pulls a long wheeled and bladed contraption up and down. It's mowing the summer's grass. Time to make hay. An old propeller plane hums proudly over. It's passage draws a slow, arching line, between the eastern and western skies.
Gradually, with nobody around, the birds return. Magpies, to bully in the high top branches. The tchack tchacks, of scattering jackdaws. A pheasant, its creaky call like an unoiled gate somewhere in the undergrowth. Little birds, perched amongst the brambles, emit short, percussive sounds. The tractor continues to mow. More planes traverse the sky. And all the time, from everywhere and nowhere, the air continues to thrum with tiny, silken vibrations. These are the traces, the most elemental of aural fragments, the leftovers gathered at the edges of human hearing from the action of countless rolling tyres on fast asphalt roads, but that from here, filtered through so many trees and hedgerows, are safely and forgettably muffled beneath the horizon.
104 While away in winter woodland (a clear mind special)
103 Tidal breakers winter beach - in HD sound
102 Mild valley in June at the Cheshire / Derbyshire border (source of natural white noise)
101 At Benfleet Creek
100 Suffolk Wood (part 11) - a new day
99 High in the hills amongst snow laden trees - Christmas special
98 A ship that passes in the night - sleep safe
97 Through the trees, distant weir (source of natural white noise - 3D with ear/headphones)
96 A blustery day begins on inland tidal water (headphones)
95 Suffolk Wood (part 10) - a voyage from dawn to day - spacious and subtle - best with headphones
94 The trees that wait for the chalk stream to flow (natural source of white noise)
93 Rain garden after dark (sleep safe)
92 Up in the April hills of mid Wales
91 When woods go weird
90 Wind on water, night curlews, rain later (sleep safe)
89 The birds of the leafy ravine - a tonic for tired minds (best with headphones)
88 An afternoon at Wrabness (part 2)
87 Sky landing - when the wind bends the trees
Night tide turning at pillbox point (sleep safe)
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