Recording from Kellogg Bird Sanctuary on July 5, 2013 of two dueling pairs of Trumpeter swans (with another swan in the background who had something to say on the matter).

I'll post one of my pictures of them shortly.

Read about KBS here: http://www.kbs.msu.edu/visit/birdsanctuary
And the trumpeter swan: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/trumpeter_swan/id and http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Cygnus_buccinator/

Trumpeter Swans

Recording of Sandhill cranes this morning (7/30/13) on Crooked Lake (a beautiful kettle lake (formed during glacial retreat) in the Pinckney Recreational Area, Michigan). The real treat of this recording comes at about the one minute mark (I'll avoid giving a spoiler). 

Read about the Sandhill crane here: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/sandhill_crane/id
And here is a bit from the "Bird Note" radio show:
http://birdnote.org/show/leaping-sandhill-cranes

Sandhill cranes

Dawn Chorus

Fleeting Thrushes covering Martha Scanlan's Seeds of the Pine.

Seeds Of The Pine Snippet

Recording at 09:26 on 7-28-2014 of water sliding around rocks just west of Bennet Cove on Mt Desert Island, Maine. It was an incredibly foggy morning. The motor on the recording is an unseen fishing boat somewhere in the fog (not my normal battle with cars and airplanes!). Unfortunately I forgot to bring my windscreen, so there's a little corruption.

Rocky intertidal, Bennet Cove, Maine

Green frogs at 11:48 pm on 8/3/14 in the pond/wetland in front of my mother's house in Haddam, CT. Lots of eyes peaking out from the water's edge. There's a great sound that comes in at the 16 second mark that I didn't hear at the time of the recording. Image is from the recording session ... foggy and dark.

Green frogs, New England

Well, that title isn't quite fair. The recording includes a special flyover visit by Marine One (the president's helicopter), however there was only one helicopter in the air -- when the president is aloft, there's always three. President Obama, therefore, wasn't on board. 
Tale of of the recording: I was banding birds outside of the Smithsonian National Zoo's Bird House (Washington DC, 7:15 am on 8/26/2014) and these flamingos were squabbling and calling to each other in a way that reminded me of last summer's trumpeter swans (see recording on this site). Unfortunately, I was disappointed that they stopped calling once I brought my recorder on my net run. Then Marine One flew directly over ... take a listen what happens!

Obama messes with flamingos

Recorded on May 16, 2013 at 1:04 am while sampling for Pine barrens treefrogs in the Sandhill region of North Carolina.

Chuck will's widow

Recording from 10:27 PM  on June 8, 2013, in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. The "buzzes" that occur in regular intervals on the recording are Common nighthawks in flight somewhere above the rooftops (they could be heard but not seen). On the ground level, there is a woman walking down the street in high heels, a group of drunk young women talking about getting tattoos, occasional gusts of wind that overwhelm the microphone, and a car horn from the parking garage around the corner. 

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