I love so much this sound, with suddenly the Bittern. Thanks !

Species: song thrush, greylag goose, common chiffchaff etc...

Song Thrush was captured by Telinga Universal MK2 parabolic reflector & Sennheiser MKH8020, backgournd ambience track: MS stereo Sennheiser MKH8040, MKH 30, 48Khz/24bit into MixPre6

Location: Zahorie, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Date: 28. 3. 2021
Starting of recording: 6:20h
Temperature: 3-8 °C
Photo by: Soňa Sommerová

Song Thrush Dawn Chorus Zahorie Slovakia

On the shore of the Lac du Der at night, a talkative Red fox meets a pack of responsive Common cranes.

Recorded with Mélia Roger on November 5th 2022 around 9:30pm.

Lom Usi Pro AB in PCM M10
Drop rig excerpt.

Illustration : Grues trompettant, Robert Hainard

Cranes and Fox dialogue - Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot

Enregistrements réalisés par Francis de Frescheville les 23 et 24 avril 2017 dans la forêt du Risoux, dans le Jura. L'écoute au casque est indispensable pour localiser les diverses sources sonores.
	Micros Sennheiser MKH-20 et enregistreur Tascam HD-P2.
	C'est une sorte de reportage sur le manège des tétras, décrit en six plages enregistrées avec les mêmes réglages. Ces séquences sont placées l'une après l'autre, séparées par un silence de deux secondes.
	1 - La nuit tombe. Les Tétras débarquent et s'installent dans les épicéas. On entend au loin un Moyen-duc et une Chouette de Tengmalm.
	2 - Cinq tétras égrènent leur chant dans le calme de la nuit.
	3 - La nuit se termine. Merles à plastron, puis Grives musiciennes. On entend une Bécasse.
	4 - Le jour est levé, l'ambiance s'enrichit, les tétras sont plus assurés, mais toujours branchés.
	5 - Les tétras descendent au sol et commencent leur parade. Les hoquets répétés viennent de deux grands corbeaux. On entend aussi un élevage d'huskies.
	6 - Affrontement de deux tétras et reconduite à la frontière.

Grand Tétras

Field recording based composition by Alëna Korolëva, with voice of Eki Shola.

Recorded in marble quarries near Borba, Portugal, October 2022.

Strange but true fact: mining is responsible for nearly half of the world’s economy. The history of mining around the world can be read in the open scars that have been left when the sought after resource has been extracted. In these wounds, often larger-than-life pits abandoned by humans, new forms of life have gathered. Inverted Mountains is a documentary record of one of these spaces. 

Portugal’s Borba Region is rich in marble, 400 pit mines dot the landscape, all but 50 are abandoned. In 2018 a wall of one of the biggest quarries collapsed and buried five people in a landslide.

This track offers a detailed examination of sunset at the bottom of the pit, four years after the accident. Pigeons circle in the lower levels, offering a sound of wings, while starlings and swallows gather near the mouth of the pit, 50 meters above. The natural echoing acoustics of the steep walls allow each bird cry to resonate in a living delay, as if there were thousands not hundreds of birds gathering here. At the very end, the lonely bird song is echoed by a human voice, calling out in a plaintive wordless cry, the ghost of all those whose lives were lost in this forsaken place.

Inverted Mountains

Late morning in Palupõhja village Alam-Pedja nature reserve, Estonia. Different little birds are chirping in the trees next to the village road when suddenly a black woodpecker comes and bangs his drum four and a half times. The recording was made in the late morning of April 17, 2023

Equipment used: Zoom F3 digital recorder An Azden microphone pre-amplifier/mixer Primo Microphones with EM172 capsules. Recorded 32 bit 48kHz

Black woodpecker drumming

Always a gamble turning up to 'twitches' in the hope to get sound recordings of the bird, but I had to make the effort when the location is that of Ham Wall, probably one of the most exotic soundtracks the Uk has to offer. I still struggled to get 2 minutes free of people talking or planes going overhead but with some editing this track was by far the best and bonus, I did get a lovely Bittern booming too. 

The bird! well what do I say, I've never heard or seen one of these before as they're rare vagrants to the Uk but safe to say I'll be making the effort again if we ever get another. They sound truly incredible and are so loud! 

Gear: Sound Devices MixPre 6 ii / Telinga Dish / Schoeps CCM 4 + Stereo mk 2's

Gavin Vella

Great Reed Warbler - MixPre - 6472

Le campement est posé sur le bord de mer. Et surprise, des Chouettes chevêches (Athene noctua) se réveillent dans un tintamarre grandissant. Vite la parabole Dodotronic et le Tascam DR05X ! Parmi plusieurs séquences de sons, celle-ci est retenue. D'autres sont déposées sur xeno-canto. Avec les sons en arrière plan de la turbulence humaine, des Pélodytes ponctués (Pelodytes punctatus), des Grenouilles rieuses (Pelophylax ridibundus) et de rares Rainettes méridionales (Hyla meridionalis).

The camp is set on the seaside. And surprise, Little Owls (Athene noctua)wake up in a growing din. Quickly the Dodotronic parabola and the Tascam DR05X! Among several sequences of sounds, this one is retained. Others are deposited on xeno-canto. With background sounds of human turbulence, the Common Parsley Frog (Pelodytes punctatus), the Marsh Frog(Pelophylax ridibundus) and rare songs of the Mediterranean Tree Frogs (Hyla meridionalis).

Vendée

Réveil crépusculaire des Chouettes chevêches à Aytré (17), le 27 avril 2023 au soir.

Night Listening means sitting, through the night, in a chosen location, as still and quiet as possible, often for many hours, absorbed in purely listening, while recording. This is an excerpt from a recent Night Listening. It involves three Brushtail Possums, and one Red Fox. The responses of the Possums to the barking of the Fox are very interesting. (Don't start with the volume raised to more than 50 to 60 per cent: some of the fox barks are quite close and loud.)

Recorded on the land of the Kaurna people.

2023.12.28 Night Listening. Night Forest. Red Fox and Brushtail Possums. Early Summer.

Deux exemples du chant d'un Siffleur des montagnes de Martinique. Expl 01 oiseau isolé à la parabole. Expl02 oiseau en ambiance cardioide.

SIFFLEUR DES MONTAGNES F Deroussen

Frogs in the first weeks of activity of the year. It was the warmest night so far, unusually high and although I went to the lake's edge, they were so loud that they could be heard from a long distance. This is also a place to see and hear herons and sometime storks, but this night it was all for the frogs.
I was testing out a Zoom F3 for the second time.

Frogs in the Countryside

30 June 2020

During an unattended nocturnal recording session in a patch of old-growth forest a rain and thunder weather passed over during late evening hours. Birds stopped singing except for a Common Chiffchaff which actually seemed triggered by the rain and thunder.

Vindeln commune, Northern Sweden (64.11 N, 19.44 E)

Primos, +6 dB, 150 Hz/6 dB low cut filter in post

Great Reed Warbler - MixPre - 6472

Gavin Vella

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