Early Morning Urban Bird Chatter Ambience • 3–6 AM Birds & Distant Traffic for Sleep, Study & Relaxation

Early morning (3-6am) bird chatter ambience — So I live in a metropolitan area within a town next to a highway…

Actually let me start a different way; what we perceive individually as silence, is nowhere near reality. I’ve learned this having stupidly rushed to interesting natural sound-makers like brooks and falls, only to realize later these sound-maker’s proximity to vehicular traffic, tarnished my recordings.

When I recorded in the Mad River Valley (Vt) last year I found a few stunning waterfalls cascading delightfully. The bustling fall leaves and their aromas filling the air, the gushing of clean water moving naturally. I would embarrass myself on a naked and alone program, but I can still appreciate spaces like this.

I recorded it all with my microphone. And when I listened later I was downcast, I never perceived the cars rushing by twenty feet away. RVs and motorcycles, and small trucks — they were loud as ******* hell. ****** us as a species--

All of this to say that I would love to hand you something that might have been recorded on the Sound of Music mountain with my Mid-Atlantic bird buddies, and only that. Alas, there will be some far off vehicular stuff joining our feathery friends (it’s not too bad I just wish this was more Jack London than Jack ****** Handey).

Speaking of Jack London, I’m not entirely sure what birds we are hearing. In recent days I have seen a red bird and then shouted “OMG, we have a Cardinal!” and days later saw a blue bird and “OMG, we have Blue Jays!” I saw a Robin too but didn’t shout “hey, everyone, the ubiquitous bird!”

Sound off in the comments if you are an ornithologist (Throw your hands in the sky!)! What are these birds? Have you ever set up a 50-foot-net? Do you make bank?

Original Photo used in episode cover by Physical Pixel