This is an edited field recording of Spring Peepers (Hyla crucifer crucifer) near Bright, Indiana, on March 26th @ 10:15 PM.

Spring Peepers, Bright, Indiana

This is a recording from the Boardwalk at Wildwood, NJ. It was created by slowly walking by a section of open storefronts and recording their ambience.

Boardwalk Wildwood, NJ

This is a recent field recording from Connecticut: "Lake Waramaug Evening." It's a binaural recording. For the best listening experience listen at a moderate volume over headphones or with good earbuds. Listen for the Barred Owl at about 1:30.

Lake Waramaug Evening

This is a field recording from Gallisteo Basin Preserve in Lamy, New Mexico. It was recorded October 28th at 3PM. This was a busy mountain biking trailhead so there are a few background voices. It is, in my experience, unusually quiet in this part of New Mexico. Sounds travel great distances. 

For the best experience, listen over headphones at a moderate volume.

Gallisteo Basin Preserve, Lamy, New Mexico

A pack of Coyotes celebrating a meal. 

For best results, listen with good earphones or earbuds at a moderate volume.

Where the Coyotes Howl

A field recording from a pond at Fernald Nature Preserve. This was recorded during a soundwalk on 6.17.2023.

Fernald Soundwalk 6.17.23

This is a field recording of Armstrong Creek on an early Summer morning. The creek can barely be heard in the background of bird songs.

An Early Summer Morning on Armstrong Creek, Halifax, PA

This field recording was collected on May 3, 2023, near the Boat Ramp on North Treaty Line Road, Liberty, IN.
Recorded by Rich Bitting
Many thanks to Bill and Julie Molleran for access to the recording location.

Dawn Chorus at Treaty Line Road

Dawn Chorus - Treaty Line Road 5.2.23

This is a field recording of a windy cornfield in late August. The day was cool and sunny. Many thanks to Keith Shaffer for the sounds of the cornfield on his immaculate sixth-generation family farm. If you listen over headphones you will hear binaural audio.

Windy August Cornfield

This is a hydrophone recording from West Harbor on Catawba Island, Lake Erie, Ohio. Listen for a fish investigating one of the mics. Listen through headphones for the best result.

Randy's Dock

This is a hydrophone recording of the Salt Marsh at Fish Haul Creek on Hilton Head Island, SC. A small gale was passing through while I was recording. You can hear the wind gusts and the water disturbance.

The Salt Marsh at Fish Haul Creek

A quiet morning ambient field recording from Pickney Island National Wildlife Refuge, SC. This is very close to Hilton Head Island, SC. It was an unusually quiet morning with no airplanes and low traffic noise.

Nini Chapin Pond, Pickney Island National Wildlife Refuge, SC

This field recording of Lake Erie waves was collected on February 14, 2024. There was a slight breeze and no ice.

Lake Erie Waves At Crane Creek SP Edit

This is a field recording of the 2024 eclipse in totality collected at the Restored Wetland Pond at Fernald Nature Preserve near Hamilton, OH. 

Listen for the Barred Owl call at 00:02:11. Totality begins at 00:02:26 with a single gunshot*, followed by many more as totality commences.  Frogs began calling at 00:06:22.

* Fernald is located near a gun club.

2024 Eclipse Totality @ Fernald Nature Preserve, Ohio

This is an excerpt of a field recording of Carpenter ants, Camponotus pennsylvanicus. It was recorded in the backyard of a friend who lives in Cincinnati on 4/20/24 at 4:55 PM using hydrophones and a Zoom F3.

Photo courtesy of Linda Ford.
Many thanks to Doug and Linda Ford for inviting me to record in their backyard.

Carpenter Ants - Camponotus pennsylvanicus

This is a field recording of the morning chorus in the woods near Logan, Ohio.

Hocking Hills Woodland Dawn Chorus 4.23.24

This is a field recording of the morning chorus in the woods near Logan, Ohio

Hocking Hills Woodland Dawn Chorus 4.25.24

Listen to the dawn chorus from my backyard in Cincinnati, Ohio, on a late May morning. 

Dawn Chorus on Greenfield Drive 5.25.24

This field recording of the Dawn chorus was made at my family farm in Halifax, PA. The birds wake up an hour before dawn.

Bitting Farm Dawn Chorus in the Cornfield 6/11/24

This field recording was collected on August 7, 2007, on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, on Garrish Lane in the Village of Ocracoke during a thunderstorm.

Ocracoke Thunderstorm

A field Recording of Conkle's Hollow in the Hocking Hills, Ohio. Recorded @ 6:10 AM, May 23, 2019. This is an excerpt of a longer much recording.

Conkle's Hollow Morning Chorus (excerpt)

This is an excerpt from a field recording of a family of Beavers at Fernald Nature Preserve. Thank you to Karen Cody for the photo and for access to the site.

Beavers @ Fernald Nature Preserve

Richard Bitting is an artist, composer, and teacher residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He makes soundscape-based audio compositions, concert music, visual artworks, photographs, and sound art installations.

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