Federsee-Boardwalk at around 700m from the start. Shortly before sunrise

Recording starts with the sounds of courting Common Mergansers (Mergus merganser) Males with their strange hollow piping sounds and females uttering their staccato laughter like sounds. Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) join in as well. at about 3:13 into the recording a Eurasian Collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) can be heard in the distance, at 4:30 the nearby church clock strikes. At about 5:20 in the recording a Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula) is heard and at 6:00 minutes the rattling sound of a Great Egret (Ardea alba). Every now and then there are cocks crowing in the distance. A lot of coming and going on the still ice-free water channel. Mergansers starting, flying over, going down and splashing water. Temperatures just below 0°C. The boardwalk being frozen over and rather slippery... Binaural recording, recorded with a modified Crown SASS housing incorporating two sennheiser mkh20 mics and a Sound Devices 702 recorder. The dummy head microphone facing north west. Placed on a tripod about 1,60 m high. For the threedimensional effect of the recording headphones are recommended.