New Age Sounds & Birds

The past week I have interestingly stumbled upon some new age records. There is a series by self-titled "sound recordist" Dan Gibson called Solitudes. There is some interesting stuff here in terms of natural sounds that may be useful to different composition groups, although I don't know how I feel about some of the background music...

Here is a great image of Dan Gibson recording with a parabolic microphone in a canoe: