From the pre-twilight still silence to a sun-risen cacophony of birds, squirrels, and elk. Just outside the fence of the Coffin Game Reserve in the Colockum Wildlife Area of Washington state on the morning of 2016, July 8. An elk herd sleeps nearby. In the silent distance, coyotes yip and bay. A male elk bugles to wake the herd. A nighthawk calls in the distance. After stirring the elk migrate past the microphones. One female hangs around to investigate, but is scared away by the unusualness of the Rycote. Birds include ravens, chickadees, nighthawks, wrens, jays, robins, and more. The geophony is a mixture of soft grasses, ponderosa pine, rocky outcroppings, and rolling hills.