@kiktat: I think the really high frequency is coming from the d100 but the majority is from a small waterfall about 50 yards to the rear of the d100. The pecking of the woodpecker was very quiet and really pushed the d100 to its limits

Quiet midnight campfire on the Oregon coast with waves and frogs in the background. Stereo recording, use headphones

Midnight campfire on the Oregon coast

I performed a Mid-Side test by inserting a Primo EM283 figure-eight microphone and a PUI AOM 5024 omnidirectional microphone into a 53 cm diameter parabolic dish.

MID - SIDE AOM5024 + EM283 figure 8 Parabolic Microphone Blackcap Song

WalkingSteps

Echoing through a flooded cypress tree forest, first a Barred Owl hoots, and then joins a second to fuss back and forth. Deep voiced Pig Frogs and shrill crickets are a sonic backdrop. Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, August 2022, recorded with Usi Pro omni pair and Zoom F3 recorder.

Owl Swamp

Rain In Valcerina

I sat with the forest. I sat far farther back from the overlooking edge seen in this photo. I didn't watch, I only listened.
I was deeply touched by the inexorable reality that, 'before' and 'after', which are but an imagination, nothing whatsoever had changed; nothing whatsoever COULD change. Business will grind on as usual, of course.
In the recording, if you listen from beginning to end, the sounds will tell the truth: both metaphorically, metaphysically, and quite literally.
Whatever will be 'new' - truly, existentially 'new' - must come, and can ONLY come, fundamentally, from us: our own minds, our own actions, our own ways of being.

Related yet unrelated track: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20191231-to-20200101-small-city-new-year-as-heard-from-far-away

2022.12.31 - 2023.01.01. What the Forest Heard.

(Best listened to with good quality headphones, in a quiet environment, at low to mid volume. Be warned: the dynamics occasionally explode, particularly in the form of Black-winged Currawongs.)

This recording is an early result of experimenting with a pair of omnidirectional and a pair of supercardioid microphones in parallel. The omnis absorb the environing atmospheric ambience, the supercardioids capture a selective and narrower focus of detail. (No processing.)

2023.01.08 Awakening Pine Forest. First Light. Summer.

Wood Thrush// 220426// some handling and anthropophonic noise// recorded by pointing the built-in mics at a bird singing from a tree nearby.

Wood Thrush

Fox Barking

An evening at the local wetland, punctuated by a symphony of spring peepers and an occasional round of applause from the resident beavers.

Interlude - Beavers And Peepers

On the last day of my trip, I was walking to my hammock in the woods when I heard, and then saw this pileated woodpecker. It was huge! 

It was hopping between white oak trees and eastern white pines. It seemed to prefer the pines. As it pecks, you can hear pieces of bark falling down from the canopy, hitting leaves and then the forest floor.

Luckily, my Sony D100 was already setup on my tripod right next to me from a previous recording. All I had to do was power it on and position it pointing up at the woodpecker. 

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Pileated Woodpecker Pecking Sounds | Chattooga River [Sony D100 Recording]

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Pileated Woodpecker Pecking Sounds | Chattooga River [Sony D100 Recording]

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