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 field recording from Nags Head Woods Preserve in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. This is one of the largest remaining maritime forests on the East Coast. 

This is best auditioned through good speakers or headphones.

Nags Head Woods - mid-morning - 9.30.21 Edit

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 hydrophone recording was made in late December of the Armstrong Creek, located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Halifax. The creek was at moderate flow and the ambient temperature was 51° F.

For best results listen at a moderate level over headphones, earbuds, or high definition speakers.

Armstrong Creek, Halifax, PA

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 Morning Chorus 4.23.24

A short excerpt from a walk on the Boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ.

Boardwalk @ Wildwood, NJ 6.20.17 12 - 25 PM (excerpt)

Barred owl in the oak tree in front of my house in Cincinnati, OH.
This is a quick edit, I'll repost a cleaner track later.
Photo by Peter K Burian - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63359099

Barred Owl 1.5.18

This is a field recording of a mangrove creek near Englewood, Florida. Recorded with a stereo pair of hydrophones.

Lemon Creek Mangroves, Hydrophone Recording 2.5.2020

This is a hydrophone field recording from a relatively "quiet" area on Gasparilla Sound near Boca Grande. Florida. The powerboat prop noises were at a minimum. The water noises from the wave action on the boat I was recording from are in the foreground. Also, notice the "clicks", perhaps fish? Something was bumping the mics, perhaps also fish? Boats, boats and more boats can be heard in the background.

Gasparilla Sound, Hydrophone Recording

Listen to the dawn chorus at Warder Preserve in Springfield Township near Cincinnati, Ohio. Sunrise was 6:37 AM. The birds began singing well before I began this recording. Notice that when the sun rises and the anthrophony (human sound becomes lowder, the bird sounds and other biophony become less dense. This is best listen to on a good set of headphones.

Dawn Chorus Warder Preserve 5.2.2020 6:07 AM

This is a field recording of the dawn chorus at Sharon Woods Park in Sharonville, OH. USA. It begins at approximately 5:50 AM. There was a light rain falling for most of the recording. This is a suburban park surrounded by interstates and railroads. This recording was captured on the Gorge Trail.

Dawn Chorus Sharon Woods 5.27.20 Mix 3

Here's a recent field recording of the dawn chorus at East Fork State Park in Ohio. It was a moderately windymorning, but the wind died down before sunrise. The frogs were very vocal before sunrise, becoming more quiet with the sunrise. 

 * Please listen via headphones or conventional speakers (computer speakers will not handle some of the content or allow it to be audible)

East Fork SP Dawn Chorus 6.11.20 5:33AM

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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