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

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.

2024 Eclipse Totality @ Fernald Nature Preserve, Ohio

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