Spitaki Mikro Papingo - Birds celebrate the summer solstice along with a few friends

These sounds taken from an extended recording on the night of the summer solstice 2017 (20/21 June) from our garden in Mikro Papingo. This recording comprises two fragments: At about 2.30 am the Scops owl begins to wind down his mournful calljust as the first birds start their early morning song. Later on our drama queen donkey who grazes in the other village across the valley gives its first sad eeyore for the day; so echoing the scops I wanted to put them together. You can also hear distant goat bells, dogs and a mystery animal sneeze. Recorded using 2 Primo EM172 capsules made up by Ian Brady (WSRS) mounted in my homemade lightweight SASS (ref Vicki Powys et al) to an Olympus LS 11. No editing apart from selection, fade i/o and cross fade for donkey