This is a “quiet recording” from nature reserve Flói in the southwest of Iceland.
This recording contains many local birds and migrants. Birds as Red- necked Phalarope, Arctic stern, Red throated diver, Black tailed Goldwit, Common Snipe, Golden Plover, Whimbrel, Eurasian Oystercatcher and many other birds are in this recording. Noisiest and probably "ugliest sound" in this recording is the Red throated diver´s territorial call, but they also express in the recording a beautiful calm conversation with their eyes.
Background noise is coming from the surf among the south cost.
The recording was made in 26th of June 2012 around 3 am and is just nine minutes of ten hours recording that day. The weather was calm, clear sky and temperature around 5°C.
This is a very quiet nature recording so you should not play it loud. If you stay there you can barely hear this birdsong or this bird activity with open ears. You should play it like you think you will hear it trough open window, as a background sound. Best way to listen to all the details and explore the bird species is using quality headphones. This recording contains also very loud session when all Red throated divers in the area “scream” their territorial call.

Recorder: Sound devises 744. (24bit/48Khz)
Microphones: Rode NT1a (NOS setup)
The picture was taken at 26th of June 2012 at the recording place almost at the same time.

Listen to more recordings from Flói. Southwest Iceland
http://fieldrecording.net/tag/fri%C3%B0land-i-floa/

See more pictures from this two days recording trip.
https://picasaweb.google.com/104187345157190691446/FriLandIFloa2012?noredirect=1

Location of the nature reserve Flói:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Selfoss,+South,+Iceland&hl=en&ll=63.901525,-21.192284&spn=0.038891,0.132093&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=69.814448,135.263672&oq=selfoss&t=h&hnear=Selfoss,+Iceland&z=14

Nature reserve in Flói 2012

First you'll hear a baby Blackbird's cry, recorded at 96kHz using DPA 4061s & a Sound Devices 702. Then the same cry, slowed down 500% and reverb added. The image is a spectrogram of the original sound. From tiny bird to wild beast in a few steps and why I record at high sample rates.

BirdHowl 48kHz

I'd headed in to the Foret Humide Des Mousseuses in Le Perche to record the dawn chorus. It was still dark as I arrived to setup my kit and to my surprise a female Tawny Owl started calling out from a tree close by. So I quickly hit record and sat back to listen. I was not that deep into the wood, and unfortunately we hear a little traffic noise in the recording.

Recorded with a Sound Devices 722 and 2 x Sennheiser MKH8040s on 08.04.17

Photo courtesy of Antony *** (Flickr) - Creative Commons License

Female Tawny Owl - Foret Humide Des Mousseuses, Le Perche, France

Larvae eating a log from the inside in the Amazon rainforest. Recorded with Sony PCM M10 and a pair of Clippy EM172 mics. More sounds from the Amazon rainforest at https://mindful-audio.com/amazon-jungle/

Amazon basin - Decomposing log - Larvae feast

Spring morning at huge ponds Dawn Chorus at 8:49 AM April 26 2019. Very close recording of a Bittern.
Equipment: Nevaton VR Mic and Zaxcom Fusion, transcoded to binaural stereo with Dear VR Micro plugin.

CHD 190426 Teleshovo Dawn Chorus 4;49 AM Bittern Close

Utwór był pierwotnie opublikowany na składance "13 Soundscapes" wydanej przez Biodiversità Records, która jest dostępna pod adresem:
https://biodiversitarecords.bandcamp.com/album/13-soundscapes

Nagranie nietoperzy latających wokół mikrofonu przy wejściu do nieczynnej sztolni. Wejście jest za bramką, która umożliwia nietoperzom przelatywanie, ale uniemożliwia przejście człowiekowi. Przy tej bramce był umiejscowiony mikrofon.
Wejście do sztolni jest w starej kopalni dolomitu, która na nowo zarosła od kiedy przestała być w użytku. Kopalnia ma strome zbocza i jest głęboka, co powoduje, że szybko się w niej ściemnia i tylko jedna ścieżka prowadzi na dno.
Kopalnia jest w Segiecie, którego część jest rezerwatem. Znajduje się pomiędzy Bytomiem i Tarnowskimi Górami na Śląsku.
Nagranie zrealizowane pomiędzy godziną 17:15 i 18:15, 21 października 2018 (zachód słońca tego dnia był o 17:43). Nietoperze opuszczały jaskinię na nocne łowy.

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The track was originally published as a part of "13 Soundscapes" compilation published by Biodiversità Records available here:
https://biodiversitarecords.bandcamp.com/album/13-soundscapes

A recording of bats flying around the microphone at an entrance of an old mine. The mine is no longer in use. The entrance is closed with a gate that allows bats to fly through the bars, however, keeps people outside. The microphone was placed at this gate. 
The mine entrance is in an old dolomite mine that is no longer in use and has been reclaimed by the woods around it and is overgrown. Due to the fact that this was a dolomite mine, the place is surrounded by extremely steep, rocky walls with it getting dark earlier than around the place and only one narrow path going through the bottom of the excavation. 
All this is located in Segiet, part of which is a nature reserve, near Bytom in Silesia region of Poland. 
The recording was made between 17:15 and 18:15 on 21 October 2018 (with sunset at 17:43 on that day). The bats were leaving the cave for a night hunt.

50.4054886,18.8531633
Zoom H5, Audio-Technica BP4025 X/Y

BDR_C#4

13 Soundscapes

Buy "13 Soundscapes"

Przeloty nietoperzy - Bat Flybys

This is a sample from the album 'Cape York: Melaleuca Swamp', recorded on the the edge of a remote melaleuca (paperbark) swamp in Cape York, far northern Australia. The microphones were placed near the edge of the wetland, adjacent to dry tropical woodland and with an open lilypad-covered lagoon in the background.  Throughout the album there is a nice natural mix of early morning sounds from wetland and woodland species in this unique landscape.

https://wildambience.com/albums/cape-york-melaleuca-swamp/

CHD 190426 Teleshovo Dawn Chorus 4;49 AM Bittern Close

Dmitry Chernov

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