I spent the entire month of April this year field recording around Romania. At the moment I'm planning another trip there so I have to go through all my recordings to clear my backlog before leaving again. I urgently need to finish editing all the wetland ambience recordings that will go into the Wetland Atmosphere library. Easier said than done, that's for sure.

Although I lived in Romania for more than 20 years, looking back it seems like I didn't choose the best time of the year for my trip. My plan was to do a couple of weeks of recording in the Carpathian Mountains and then a week or two in the Danube Delta. I wanted to take advantage of the lush dawn choruses that happen this time of the year, but I also wanted to record frogs. Frogs are loudest in the mating season, which typically happens around March and April, but that's still quite cold for dawn choruses in the mountains.