No music, no voices, just the sound of the forest coming to life early one morning near Canberra — where the gum trees grow small and with twisting white trunks. In the twilight of the morning I creep out from under the covers to set up the microphones right next to a dam. We are on the land of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people, and not far away there are paddocks, livestock, a road and a farmhouse. But right here all there is, is nature waking up for the day. Listen for the drops of dew falling from the gumtrees and onto the leaf-litter below.

Episode ID: 1000529662341

GUID: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/nature-track/peaceful-morning-forest-songs/13465974

Release Date: 22/07/2021, 03:00:16