This is a recording made in 2020 of the fallow deer 'lek'. This happens around in the second half of October in the UK. The males tend to congregate in in small groups or mating territories where they exhibit lekking behaviours such as sticking to particular 'stands' where they will repeating grunt and bellow.

The recording was made with a pair of DPA 4060s into a Mixpre6ii.

PS FALLOWDEER MALEGRUNTS VERYCLOSE DPA4060s MIXPRE6ii

This is a second recording made in 2020 of the fallow deer 'lek'. This happens around in the second half of October in the UK. The males tend to congregate in in small groups or mating territories where they exhibit lekking behaviours such as sticking to particular 'stands' where they will repeating grunt and bellow.

This recording was made with a Sony M10 and a spaced pair of clippy EM172s. The mics were placed where I had observed a large group of rutting males the night before.

PS DEER MALEGRUNTS MULTIPLE VERYCLOSE MOVEMENTACROSSSTEREOFIELD M10

This is a recording of some interactions on a black grouse lek in the highlands of Scotland. 

It was recorded with a Sony M10 and a matched pair of Clippy EM172 mics.

AVIEMORE  - BLACK GROUSE LEK - EARLY MORNING - VERY CLOSE COOING AND HISSES 2.0 M10

Recording of a yellowhammer. BC dialect. Recorded with telinga reflector, sound devices 302 and marantz PMD 661

PS YellowHammer Gifford 16.05.13 5am

Recording of Red Grouse, Curlew, Snipe, lapwing, pheasant and skylark

PS RedGrouseClose Lammermuirs 19.04.14

This is a recording of a common whitethroat from the isle of Eigg. It was recorded on farmland above the lodge on 20.05.14

CommonWhitethroat Eigg Sample

This is a recording made in spring 2023 on the isle of eigg.

It is a cuckoo calling from a small patch of trees above Laig bay. 

The recording was made with a Sony D100 and spaced EM172s.

Close up cuckoo on the isle of Eigg

This is a recording taken on a bog surround by forest near Joensuu in Finland. It was recorded using the 'tree ears' technique where two omni directional mics are attached to the trunk of a tree 20cm apart.

BIRDWADE Curlew Display Call With Black Grouse PS NONE

This is a recording of a pair of ospreys taken in Finland on a large forest bog location. It was recorded with a pair of Clippy Em172 mics and a Sony D100 recorder.

BIRDPrey Osprey Calls Male Delivering Food PS NONE

This is a recording of a pair of common greenshanks calling in the forest in Finland. The recording was made during the night in a clearing near the Russian border.

BIRDWade Common Greenshanks In Mixed Woodland PS NONE

This is a short recording of a roding woodcock in a forest in Finland. It was recorded on a Sony D100 with a pair of EM172 mics in 'Tree Ears' configuration

BIRDWade Passing Roding Woodcock In Mixed Woodland PS NONE TreeEarsD100ClippyEM172

Fallow Deer

This is a recording of storm petrels calling from the walls around mousa broch on shetland. It is one of my favourite sounds but this is the first decent recording I have got of them calling. I spend around a week trying to get this recording

BIRDSea Storm Petrels Calling From Rocks On Mousa Broch PS NONE SonyD100

This is a recording of an individual storm petrel calling from the walls around mousa broch on shetland.

BIRDSea Storm Petrel Individual Calling From Rocks On Mousa Broch PS NONE SonyD100

This is a short section of a recording of a black grouse lek

PS BlackGrouse 5.40am 13.04.15 MP3VersionForSoundcloud

A nice interaction between lekking black grouse

PS BlackGrouse Short NiceInteraction

This is a recording of a nightjar 'churring' made with a telinga parabolic reflector. 

PS Nightjar

This is a stereo recording of manx shearwaters returning to their burrows. It was made on Skokholm island off the pembrokeshire coast at 11.56pm on the 4th of may 2016 with an mkh 40 and an mkh 30 in M/S configuration

PS Skokholm ManxShearwatersReturningToBurrows 11.56pm 04.05.16 ShortClip

This is a mono recording of a manx shearwater calling from its burrow. Recorded on Skokholm Island on the 4th of may 2016 with a DPA 4060

PS Skokholm ManxShearwater InBurrow MonoLav ShortClip 10.30pm 04.05.16 4.5

This is a recording of a black throated diver calling on a lake in central Sweden. It was recorded with my MKH 30/ MKH 40 M/S rig.

PS BlackThroatedDiver Calls Sweden

This is a recording of a flock of barnacle geese up close made with a pair of clippy EM172 mics and a Olympus LS 14 recorder

PS Caerlaverock CloseUpBarnacles ShortClip 44.1 KHz Version

This is a short clip of a capercailllie landing in a tree to roost. Recorded with a mkh 30, 2 x mkh 8040 DMS rig in central Sweden.  Photo by Stefan Taylor.

PS CaperLandingInTree 02 StereoVersion SC

This is a short clip of a close up recording of a capercaillie lekking. It was recorded with an Clippy EM172 mic into an olympus LS-14 in central Sweden. Photo by Stefan Taylor.

PS CloseUpCaper MonoVersion - Short clip

This is a recording of a male and female red throated divers calling to each other. It was made in 2019 in Svalbard on one of the small ponds in Adventdalen using a sony M10 recorder and two EM172 mics

REDTHROATEDDIVERS MALEANDFEMALECALLING SVALBARD2019

This is a close up recording of barnacle geese with their chicks grazing in Adventdalen in Svalbard. It was made with a pair of clippy Em17 mics and a sony M10 recorder.

GEESE VERYCLOSE GEESE EATING WITH CHICKS PASSING MICS SPLASHES M10 CLIPPYEM172

Recordings of bat echo location calls made above laig bay on the isle of eigg. 

PS Bats LaigBay Cleaned

PS GrassHoppers Eigg Mono

PS Curlew FlyPast LochUrr Stereo

Mono recording of a curlew display call made with a parabolic refector

PS Curlew Evening Mono LochUrr

PS GrasshopperWarblerForWebsite

Recording of the final stages of the dawn chorus at castle wood near gifford with light rain and two roe deer barking

PS RoeDeerBarks Gifford LightRain DawnChorus 20.05.13 5.10am 96KHz24bit 4

Pete Smith is a professional field recordist and sound designer with a keen interest in wildlife and conservation. 

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