Full Story: https://acousticnature.com/journal/field-recording-nature-sounds-in-santee-coastal-reserve

This album is a collection of the best recordings I made while exploring the Santee Coastal Reserve in South Carolina. The variety of sounds reflects the diverse landscape within the reserve.

All sounds were captured with handmade SASS microphones recording to Sony D100, Olympus LS-10, or Tascam DR05x field recorders.

Chorus Of Drumming Woodpeckers - LS10 Drop Rig (7:37am)

Full Story + Video: https://acousticnature.com/journal/recording-nature-sounds-in-the-okefenokee-swamp

This field recording is of a powerful thunderstorm slowly approaching a small pine forest on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. To deaden the sound of raindrops on the SASS microphone, I put spanish moss on top of the enclosure. This worked really well!

Thunderstorm from Pine Forest POV (3:17pm) - LS10 w/SASS

Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)

Listen to a lush and immersive dusck chorus captured in the East African savanna. Long version at https://youtu.be/pjsDqXcreDw

Dusk in the African savanna

(PL - scorll down for EN)
Nagranie pokazujące różnicę w brzmieniu skrzypienia drzewa z zewnątrz i z jego wnętrza. Na zewnątrz mikrofon AT BP4025 umieszczony kilkadziesiąt centymetrów od skrzypiącego drzewa. We wnętrzu wetknięte w próchniejące u podstawy drzewo mikrofony LOM Uši.
Pierwsze dwie minuty (00:00 - 2:00) to nagranie z zewnątrz - z mikrofonu AT BP 4025.
Kolejne dwie minuty (2:00 - 4:00) to nagranie z wnętrza drzewa - z LOM Uši
Ostatnie dwie minuty (4:00 - 6:00) to połączone oba nagrania z wnętrza i z zewnątrz.

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A recording showing the differences in the sound of the creaking of a tree from outside and its inside. Outside, the AT BP4025 microphone is located a few dozen centimeters from the creaking tree. Inside, LOM Uši microphones are stuck in the rotting base of the tree.
The first two minutes (0:00 - 2:00) are recorded from the outside  - from the AT BP 4025 microphone.
The next two minutes (2:00 - 4:00) is a recording from inside the tree - with LOM Uši.
The last two minutes (4:00 - 6:00) are both inside and outside recordings combined.

Comparison - tree creaking - outside and in / Porownanie - skrzypienie drzewa –z zewnatrz i wewnatrz

Listening with good quality headphones in a quiet environment is recommended.

2021.12.05 Rufous Whistler and Kangaroo. Dawn. Mallee Country. Early Summer.

Microphones between two ice blocks on the frozen shallow shore with a small swell under the ice.

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(Sennheiser KE4 capsules moded by Verdeaudio, Sony D100, 24/48, no processing, Flac)

Tight Ice - 25/12/2021 - Loukkeennokka Shore

Birds and rain drops in cloud forest of Costa Rica

Birds and Rain in Cloud Forest Costa Rica

Biebrza Marshes 23.5.2002
Returning from recording aquatic warblers at nightfall one evening I caught the faintest whisper of a pixie party happening somewhere out over the flood meadows. Surely not - an elusive great snipe lek, unknown to the official birding parties scavenging for rarities and spectacles? I approached cautiously to try to get a closer fix on its location - difficult in the vast undifferentiated expanse of low sedges and grasses, and the disappearing light. But it seemed to be in the vicinity of a small patch that appeared whiter in the gloom, maybe a colony of some lighter-coloured plant. I took a trig from some distant silhouetted landmarks and headed back to base over a mile away.

I discussed it with my local contact, who happened to own this land; sure enough this was an unknown lek and yes he was happy for me to have a go at recording it when conditions were good. For a while the wind blew. Then a few days later at the end of a hot afternoon, with the breeze dropping to negligible, I decided to go for it. I headed out a couple of hours before dusk to put the mics in place and got a disheartening shock when I flushed a few of the birds - early arrivals waiting for dusk. And no sign of my white patch. But there was an area with a concentration of dandelion stalks; so just maybe the whiter area had been the seed heads, now blown off in the last few days winds. So I set my mics up there, ran a 100m cable off to a peaty gulley and headed off to the river to wait for twilight.

I wasn’t sure what I’d find when I returned cautiously. Put on the headphones and wow, they were right there. They put on a good show - purely for my ears, as I couldn’t see them. But I was very happy. The mosquitoes were bad that balmy night, but I was well insulated. No blood donations.

Many thanks to Colin Bradshaw for use of his photo.


Great Snipe Lek

Sionskoe Lake

This is an 8-minute summary of the album which is available here: https://andruskannel.bandcamp.com/album/alam-pedja-soundscapes-through-the-four-seasons

Alam-Pedja is vast protected wilderness area covering 342 square kilometres. It is situated in Central Estonia northeast of Lake Võrtsjärv, in a lowland area called the Võrtsjärv Basin and consists of rivers, their floodplains, various bogs, and some very different types of forests. There are very few people living there so that the human population density is comparable to that of wolf, bear and lynx. There are few roads so the forests and bogs are not too fragmented. Since 1997 Alam-Pedja has been recognized as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. In 2004 it was designated a Natura 2000 site.

In this album we hear recordings made in the mornings, in the day time, evenings and at nights from different types of habitats in Alam-Pedja. These soundscapes cover the springtime through summer to late autumn. Album starts with a soundscape recording where still lasts winter time. The listener gets a good idea of ​​how Alam-Pedja sounds through the year, gets a feel for the spirit and majesty of this wild area. Recordings were made over two years; 2017 & 2018.

My special thanks to fellow nature recordist Fintan O’Brien for valuable advice and help.

Alam-Pedja soundscapes through the four seasons (Preview)

Andrus Kannel