I love the stereo image. What gives away the moose and calf? Did you have a trailcam setup?

This is a Mid Side audio recording performed on May 5, 2021 at the wetland Palude del Busatello near Gazzo Veronese - Verona - Italy.
I used a Do It Yourself system by means of a stereo separation baffle inside a 55 cm parabolic dish, in which I inserted two 10 mm microphone capsules: an Omnidirectional AOM 5024 facing the inside of the dish and a figure-eight Primo EM283.
I used a Tascam DR100 mk3 on M/S position recording. 
Please use a good headphones to appreciate the stereo separation!

Nightingale Mid Side parabola recording

Mid-Side recording in Parabolic Microphone Common Nightingale song

While working on a documentary project in Addis Ababa, I was lucky enough to visit several natural sites in Ethiopia. This is a recording from Lake Langano, where many birds and other animals live. 

I was recording on the shore near the fishing village, which you can hear softly in the background. At that time, children were bathing and having fun.

March 2021. Recorded together with Lucia Nimcova.

Early morning on Lake Langano, Ethiopia

In the morning of the last day of July, as I was about to enter the main door of an aged care nursing  home, I had to stop and step aside to make way respectfully for a trolley bearing a deceased person draped completely with deep red cloth. I do not know who they were - their name, gender, nationality, story... The body was borne into a nondescript white van.

Later, that evening, while editing and composing some field recordings for a quite different work, this particular conjunction of layers happened to align  itself, as if of its own accord, and I recalled my meeting with an unseen deceased body, neatly draped in deep red cloth, earlier that day. For that person, for every such person, I wanted to offer this sound-parable, as an aesthetic gesture of respect, mourning, but also of celebration, a confident casting and sowing of thoughts towards the all-encompassing horizon of infinity.

"Among the Seven Wise Women, one woman said, 'Sisters, you and I should not go to scenic parks to partake of worldly entertainments... Instead, let's go together to enjoy the charnel grounds.' The other women said, 'That place is full of decaying corpses. What is such a place good for?' The first woman said, 'Sisters, just go. Very good things are there.' When they arrived in the forest, the woman pointed to a corpse and said to the other women, 'The corpse is here; where has the person gone?' The women witnessed the truth and realized the way." (Dōgen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Kōroku, translated by Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, Boston: Wisdom Publications 2004, p. 120)

2021.08.01 Parable the Second: Passage. (Παραβολὴ ἡ Δεύτερη• Πέρασμα.)

Once the birds have nested, it is the turn of the wasps. The recording was made in a small village. In addition to wasps, the village road, dogs, grasshoppers and the wind can be heard. Headphones recommended but it can be scary for some

The European hornet builds a nest inside the bird house. Estonia. August 05, 2021

12 August 2021

Had a couple of microphones deployed for passive monitoring of diurnal bird activity in a forest area not far from where I live.  One night the mics captured a moose with calf approaching. They walked  by at some distance when they for unknown reason turned around and passed by very close. Had it not been for the tree ”ear” placement, I fear the mics could have been completely trashed. Moose not just sound big, they are big in real life. 

Umeå commune, Västerbotten County (63.39 N, 19.54 E)

Primo-EM172s

Moose coming almost too close

Watch Video + Read Blog → https://acousticnature.com/journal/pachaug-state-forest-nature-sounds 

Full Album: https://soundcloud.com/acousticnature/sets/the-sounds-of-pachaug-state-forest 

In celebration of the Equinox, I camped and recorded nature sounds in the Pachaug State Forest in Connecticut on September 22nd, 2021.

Although Connecticut is my home state, this was my first overnight field recording trip. That's because Connecticut is not a great state for recording quiet nature sounds. Connecticut has zero national forests, zero national parks (not counting historic sites), and zero BLM land.

Since the Pachaug State Forest is the largest forest in the state (27,000 acres), I thought it was my best chance at recording silence. Although I did capture some noise pollution free sounds, it was challenging and most of my recordings were polluted even late into the night, primarily by vehicle noise. 

Most of these recordings were made possible thanks to rain and wind overpowering the noise pollution, rendering it inaudible.

Recording Gear Used:
Olympus LS-10
Olympus LS-10s
SASS Microphone
Telinga Modular Parabolic Microphone
JrF D-Series Hydrophone

Geese Echoing Across Pond | Telinga Modular

A small flock of sixty Migrating Whooper Swans in the middle of night resting on Makholma Bay, Western Finland.  The tempo of the yoking will increase to the end. The nearby shore with forest is giving a nice echo. 

Video from the Bay:  http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/211114a/

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, 24/48, Flac)

Whooper Swans  - 14/11/2021 - Makholma Bay

Night in forest. Somebody is skulking in undergrowth and making eerie sounds. At times it feels like a possessed child or even Gollum is lurking in dark forest...

Boreal owl and waves of Peipsi lake in background.

23. May 2020, 1 AM. Peipsiveere, Estonia.

Edit: It is most likely a pine marten. I had another recording with visual contact and the sounds were pretty similar.

Creature of night

Recorded in Sweden with SoundDevices MixPre 6-ll and Telinga Stereo Parabolic.
Distance to the adult owl 30 meter

Great Grey Owl, Strix nebulosa. Lappuggla

A warm night with an easterly wind and full moon and small flocks of Greater white-fronted Goose and Barnacle Goose migrating over a small forest beside the shore near our house in Makholma Finland. Recording from 02.45-03.00
Headphones recommended.

(MKH8020 ab80cm, pointing upward, 24/48, +10dB in post, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Arctic Geese migrating - 4/10/2020 - Makholma Night

This Verreaux's eagle owl advertised his territory from the exact tree that I set up my overnight sound recording rig in. Long version at https://youtu.be/hwYJmGwQ6Mk

Moose coming almost too close

Lars Edenius

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