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<b>A quite brief light shower beside the Lower Deer Stalker's Path, high on the south side of the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK, above Fingle Bridge.</b> To quote from my journal for 16 August 2020&#8230; =============== It was a late decision (in the small hours of today) to do this outing, so I hadn't gone to bed early, and I had very little sleep, with a lot of 'overactive mind' then and an uncomfortable churning in the gut, and an irritable bladder (4 night pees), so was feeling very sleep-deprived. Widespread thunderstorms were forecast for the area for today about lunchtime onwards, through the night and into tomorrow, but in the event I returned empty-handed. I did set R5 recording during the main light shower, but that was only pretty short, and I think it had just too much disturbance (e.g., including noises from my lightweight Goretex top when I moved, and various tummy-rumbles of mine while I was holding the umbrella over the recorder). I was going to discard that recording, but eventually salvaged some 15 minutes. =============== Yes, my gut's squidgy gurglings were a wonder to behold while I was out that day, and I had to cut them all out of the completely non-thunderstorm that I did record, to make it sufficiently boring to post here! &#8212; And of course all the intense thunderstorms for the most part did happen, but of course as usual, anywhere where I wasn't in earshot of them. Nature recordists get to love Mother Nature and her little games (<i>Grrrr!</i>). Capturing a good thunderstorm with a reasonable number of ground strikes, from a high up position in the Teign Gorge, is a particular 'holy grail' of mine. I want to capture lightning striking below me in the valley, with the ricocheting echoes and reverbs coming up from the valley slopes. Helicopters and low-flying jet aeroplanes often sound quite spectacular there, so my imagination informs me that lightning should sound pretty special there too. <img alt="January view of site of this recording" src="https://www.broad-horizon-nature.co.uk/190113_lower_deer_stalkers_path_in_woods_high_above_fingle_bridge.jpg"> <i>A 13 January 2009 view of the recording site beside the Lower Deer Stalker's Path. The recorder was in the bottom-right corner of this view, facing down the slope, which would be obliquely to our right and away from us &#8212; but of course it was August then, so no significant dead leaves and lots of greenery.</i> <b>Techie stuff:</b> The recorder was Sony PCM-D100, with two nested custom Windcut furry windshields. It was used on a lightweight Hama tripod. Initial post-recording processing was to apply an EQ curve to compensate for muffling from the furry windshields. <b>Please remember to give this recording a rating &#8212; Thank you! <img alt="" src="https://www.broad-horizon-nature.co.uk/me-icon_wink.gif"></b>