17 Sep 2025

Moment of Calm: Blackbirds at Dawn.

From Three to Seven, 5:35 pm on 17 September 2025
Blackbird singing

The star of the show. Photo: hedera.baltica from Wrocław, Poland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

This week's Sonic Moment of Calm comes from Dunedin.

When RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump was in the Edinburgh of the South to help out with the finale of this year's Big Sing, he made sure he had his recording device with him.

He was hoping to capture the chimes of the city's Town Hall clock. Alas, it was switched to silent mode, but the blackbirds hanging out in the garden of the motel where he was staying weren't.

So if you'd like to hear some early birds, no matter how late it is, click on the link above.

A garden in central Dunedin.

Where Bryan heard the blackbirds singing. Photo: Bryan Crump