Third PB passage: 09:09 to 12:09 (This one is quite distant, to the far left, requires careful listening. The bird is nearest to the other rig, half a kilometre away.)

Second PB passage: 04:37 to 06:40 (First and second passages are nearest to the present rig.)

First PB passage: 01:12 to 02:29 (First and second passages are nearest to the present rig.)

As if the pied butcherbirds had recorded it for themselves. a stunning intimacy.

Captation by Capture 
ZoomH6 + Scanner Uniden 

Beluga Wav

Two rigs simultaneously recording the same dawn within the same landscape, located about half a kilometre apart. The beautiful calls of a Pied Butcherbird can be heard from each location. Its first two sequences of calls are nearer to the first location (Perspective 1), in the background of a flurry of foreground bird activity. Its third sequence of calls are very near to the second location (Perspective 2), within a rather different soundscape mood. But all three sequences are heard from both locations, either as distant or as near.

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

2023.10.29 Mallee Dawn in Spring with Pied Butcherbird: Perspective 1

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

Live at the Wetlands: 53.95210, 20.17957
recording: Stolonis
object: Olympus LS-100, mic - Rode NT4, headphones Sony mdr 7506

Bombina Bombina Et Consortes

The sound of the Song Thrush that I recorded in Kazdağları (Mount Ida, Turkey), which I visit every spring, just before sunset.
Kazdağları is the forest where I was born, raised, and always listened to attentively. In this recording, I am approximately 3 meters away from the Song Thrush and I feel very lucky that I was able to capture its entire performance without frightening it.
There was a distant, tranquil sound of a stream in the background. The species of birds heard in the distance are: Brown Thrasher, Northern Cardinal, Eurasian Blackbird.

Mount Ida, Early Evening, Song Thrush

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The Marais Du Verdier is a rich marshland made up of four former fishponds totalling 120 hectares, with a variety of habitats (reedbeds, bulrushes, salt meadows, ponds, tamarisk groves). This recording captures the intense amphibian chorus after dusk, with many Stripeless Tree Frogs (hyla meridionalis) vocalising. 

Recorded 10.05.2024
Zoom F3 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)

Amphibian Chorus - Les Marais Du Verdier, Camargue, France

18 May 2024

Rustic Bunting breeds in swamp forest in the northern Palearctic boreal region. It is a long-distance migrant with Fennoscandian birds overwintering in eastern Asia. There has been a strong range-wide population decline in RB and it has been classified as globally threatened. In recent years there are hopeful signs of a stabilization in population numbers, at least locally. 

Rustic Bunting is one of my favourite birds, and I have spent many hours searching them home and abroad. The best time to find them is in May upon arrival when they are most actively singing. One should preferrably listen in the early morning hours, even before sunrise. I compiled a sequel of sound clips recorded during the same morning in an attempt to capture the Rustic Bunting soundscape.

Clip #1 Setting the scene. Early morning hour and still pretty dark and damp in the swamp forest. Mics placed as tree ears close to a calmly floating creek. RB has been singing since sunrise and is now joined by Eurasian Siskin, Song and Mistle Thrush and Cuckoo. #2 Closing in, thirty minutes later. The singing choir has multiplied, and one can now also hear Redwing, Willow Warbler, Black Woodpecker, Brambling and Common Redstart. #3 Close quarters. The singing RB male exposes its rusty coloured breast, perched high in a birch with a displaying Wood Sandpiper in the background. Stereo-mounted mics in a parabolic dish.

Botsmark, Umeå commune, Västerbotten County (64.26 N, 20.14 E)

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Rustic Bunting – the gem of boreal swamp forests

Szlaban na szlaku

Gate to Drombeg Stone Circle

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2023.10.29 Mallee Dawn in Spring with Pied Butcherbird: Perspective 1

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