Calm creek flowing, frogs and birds - sleep music (3 hrs) | Nature Track

[@ABCScience]

Hi, it’s Ann Jones from How Deadly. Imagine a still, cold night, with moonlight flooding the landscape. Big, old candlebarks are standing still and silent, and a creek winds through a shallow valley. This creek is near where I grew up in country Victoria, and in this recording it was running from rains a couple of days prior. Despite the lovely sound of flowing water, the frogs didn’t appear to be in the water, but rather, a lot of the sound was coming from the vegetation, pools and puddles around the creek’s edges. It’s hard to hear many of the other sounds above the water flowing and the frogs, they manage to really cover your ears, but there are actually many creatures in this recording if you’ve got very good ears and time to listen hard. --------------------------------------------------------------- 1:50 Common eastern froglet with a “creaky-creaky-creaky” call. Don’t let the name fool you - these are tiny frogs, with a maximum size of 3cm. The best way to see them is to wait until night and use a torch to try and see tiny little eyes on the edge of the water. They will appear in almost any habitat really, they’re not too picky and will probably breed at any time of year also. They’re hardy - and that’s why they’re still common. Only the male frogs call in this way to advertise. What you’re hearing is only a maximum of 50 percent of the frogs present. But more than that, there will be other species who prefer different temperatures, and this might be too warm or too cold for them. This is a way of, sort of, divvying up the habitat between all the frogs that live there. There could be all sorts of things lurking there quietly - let me know in the comments if you can identify any! 24:00 The brown tree frogs are calling. These are medium frogs - that means they’ll only get up to about 4.5cm. It’s a pretty common little frog throughout the south-eastern part of the mainland - and will be heard in natural areas, farms and even in town! They’ll call at basically any time of year. 25:42 A female powerful owl is calling in the distance. This is Australia’s largest owl, and the female’s call is ringing out across her territory. 38:48 A female fox is calling in a characteristic scream/cough, though it’s very faint with all the rowdy frogs. She’s advertising her presence to other foxes, and who knows if she got a response. She did set distant dogs off barking though. These dogs bark on and off throughout this whole recording. Their voices really carry - I think they were well over a kilometre away. You can just hear their lower tones floating underneath the close water and frog sound. 44:27 A possum in a tree being rowdy as it cullumps through the branches. 51:20 Sugar gliders are nearby, chirping out their little barks. And also…. if you listen closely, you can hear a launch, silence while she glides, and a landing. To be fair though, this could be a ringtail in the tree, as shortly after the noises, a ringtail starts calling. Possibly more likely to be a ringtail, they’re more clumsy. 52:05 The ringtail sounds like an extremely high-frequency horse’s whinny. They almost sound like insects. They have a prehensile tail, meaning they use it to grip branches, or to carry things, like bunches of leaves back to their hollows. The ringtails in Victoria are, I think, much cuter than the ringtails further north. Gauntlet thrown. 1:34:45 I think this sharp, strong insect sound is possibly a katydid. 2:12:40 You can hear the scolding, throat-clearing calls of the brush-tailed possums. There are several through this recording and they also move through trees, in a very characteristically noisy way throughout the soundscape. If you hear rustling, it’s likely a possum looting a tree. 2:38:10 This is one of those breaks, where all the frogs just decide, through some cue, to stop calling all at once in an area. Then, one will start up and it all kicks off again.

[@ftsboys9825]

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[@serenavsworld]

As an Aussie living overseas, I cannot begin to tell you how beautiful this is. Thank you for bringing the sounds of home to the world!

[@perdbeer6713]

This is my situation and feelings too! Make sure you check out the Tasmanian one if you haven't already!

[@JillofAllTrades2]

YES! I’ve waited decades for these sounds to make it easy to get to them. I’d have to buy CDs but you could listen to them only so many times. It’s FANTASTIC to be able to hear the sounds I miss SO much. No sounds are as sweet as those of Australian birds. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@JillofAllTrades2]

@@perdbeer6713 Will do. Check out the video set in the Blue Mountains.

[@JillofAllTrades2]

I’ve started streaming them on the TVs inky house so I can hear them wherever I am. Love listening to the sounds while I’m working.

[@annyreed397]

This is my go-to whenever I have trouble getting to sleep. Thank you so much!

[@ginacardarella]

So relaxing I play this for my bearded dragon❤❤❤

[@Tonimaree25]

Love this! I live in Buninyong so, very close to home for me. 💓

[@sarah3796]

Yey buninyong

[@catherineheadey6381]

Peaceful background noises of the bush - lovely to play while studying, cheers!

[@ABCScience]

Glad you like it!

[@debbain-king8264]

Wonderful science, wonderful soundscape. Taking me back to where I belong. Sigh🙏🤗

[@nurygordillo3267]

This is such wonderful therapeutic video. My family in South America has been impacted by COVID and I’ve shared this to help them manage anxiety. Thank you for creating this nature soundtrack!

[@KarinWentworthPing]

I adore this. What a wonderful idea. I'm listening to Calm Creek Flowing. Thank you Ann Jones.

[@orsenfernandez7532]

Just so lovely! Thanks Aunty!

[@leoniekenny1568]

How great is this particular sound! 2:12:40 You can hear the scolding, throat-clearing calls of the brush-tailed possums. :o)) Loving this Ballarat landscape. Thank you !

[@badpossum440]

I am from western Queensland & i remember the first permanent flowing creek i saw, contract mustering north of Rocky, i could not believe they just let the water run away like that. But it was beautiful to see.

[@Blackheathenly]

:(

[@X_explorer]

Excellent clip!

[@Cryptoversity]

great backgroud sound for my house bus, parked un a barn while I work on my on an old cottage

[@ssf6942]

It’s great but the water made me get up out of bed to go to the toilet 🤣

[@ABCScience]

🤣 Sorry about that!

[@JillofAllTrades2]

LOL!

[@fallofmanbrand]

nice video bro

[@danh4677]

Can we buy or download high quality versions (320 kbps mp3, .flac, or .wav) of these videos somewhere?

[@ABCScience]

Hey Dan, You can listen for free! Search ‘Nature Tracks’ on the ABC Listen app, or subscribe to the 'Off Track' podcast feed and scroll back a few months.

[@JillofAllTrades2]

@@ABCScience Here’s hoping it’s not geographically restricted. So excited to download the app!

[@Blackheathenly]

What kind of psycho gives this a thumbs down?

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[@precillalobo3638]

Nice background music..its gift frm nature...calm and pleasent...visit my home. Stay connected

[@louiseeckert1574]

Adelaide, SA LouiseAustralia 🦘