Name: Cyprus Marsh Frogs by Robert Malpas in Anura by others
Duration: 5 min 38 s
Description: Cyprus Marsh Frogs (Pelophylax bedriagae) recorded by the Dhiarizos river, near Kidasi, Cyprus in May 2006. Equipment used: Rode NT4 into a Marantz PD660.

Anura by others

Ninety minutes before sunrise. A magical time, still pretty dark, when everything is beginning to stir including: curlew, snipe, sedge warblers, reed bunting, tawny owl, cuckoo, redshank, shoveler...and distant peacocks! 
3.30am 13th May 2021. Wheldrake Ings, Yorkshire
Sennheiser MKH8020/30 MS in reflector; SD MixPre-3

Wetland before Sunrise

A Cuckoo calls before sunrise, no doubt eyeing up the local Reed Warblers as potential hosts.
Typically busy background including Reed & Sedge Warblers, Blackbird, Song Thrush...
4.20am 13th May 2021 Wheldrake Ings Yorkshire
Sennheiser MKH8020/30 MS reflector; SD MixPre-3

Cuckoo in a reedbed

Forest clearing near Nihujärve lake. Whooper Swans vocalise before taking off and heading elsewhere...
Other birds: Woodlark, Tree Pipit, Song Thrush, Wood Pigeon, Cuckoo, Eurasian Jay.

2. May 2022, Estonia

Morning soundscape with Whooper Swans

Enjoy 15 minutes of an unusually quiet dawn by a reedbed pool at Faxfleet, East Yorkshire on the banks of the Humber, recorded at 6.30am on Easter Sunday 2023. Includes moorhen, wren, water rail, wood pigeon, little grebe, Cetti's warbler, bearded tit, chiffchaff, curlew, coot, greylag goose.
Best on headphones!

Reedbed pool at dawn, Easter Sunday

Dawn chorus over the floodplain meadows of Wheldrake Ings NR, a rich mix of wildfowl with woodland birds behind. I've left the gas gun bird scarers in!
MKH60s, SD MixPre 3. 5.30am 30th March 2024

Wheldrake Ings at Dawn, Easter Saturday

Cyprus Marsh Frogs (Pelophylax bedriagae) recorded by the Dhiarizos river, near Kidasi, Cyprus in May 2006. Equipment used: Rode NT4 into a Marantz PD660.

Cyprus Marsh Frogs

This entry won the Habitat section in the 2015 WSRS Recording Competition. It was also awarded the Silver Fox Trophy for best recording. 

These 2-minutes were selected from a 2-hour recording, made with a pair of MKH406’s arranged ORTF in a homemade wind cage placed on a tripod in the reed bed. The recorder used was a Fostex FR-2LE. 

The marsh was at Barrage Imi-N-Laârba, near the town of Aït Ouri, 50km from Marrakesh. As well as crickets, the main species heard are the deeper-voiced Berber Toads (Amietophrynus mauritanicus), Sahara Frog (Pelophyllax saharicus) and the rasping sounds of Mediterranean Tree Frogs (Hyla meridionalis).


Evening at a Moroccan Marsh

Large pig frogs lead the croaking chorus of multiple species searching for mates in the flooded saw grass prairie along PaHaOkee Road in Everglades National Park, Florida. Southern cricket frogs "clack-clack" in background.Wide stereo field recorded in ORTF with pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones feeding a Sound Devices MixPre 3 recorder. February 2018.

Pig Frogs Pa Hay Okee

Brought out by a rain storm, toads and frogs call out as thunder continues to roll across the cypress and saw grass forest at the Big Cypress Preserve, part of the everglades near Miami, Florida. 00:05 Southern Toad, 00:11 Green Tree Frog, Spring Peeper frogs' birdlike chirp throughout, and 03:20 far off Red Shouldered Hawk. Recorded in XY Stereo with Audio Techinica BP4025 and MixPre-3, 40hz low cut and 57 Db gain. One continuous recording with EQ applied in post. May 2018.

Amphibian Rain Call

As the night progresses, frogs sing three verses: 1) cricket frog solos & far off pig frogs answer, 2) chorus of green tree frogs and 3) clacking southern cricket frogs harmonize with grunting green tree frogs. Big Cypress Preserve, Florida, June 2018. Wide stereo field recorded in ORTF with pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones feeding a Sound Devices MixPre 3 recorder.

Three Verse Florida Frogs

As the last noisy chorus of three southern cricket frogs fades out for the night, quieter creatures fill the swamp forest with more subtle sounds until dawn. Recorded in the Big Cypress Preserve near Miami, FL, June 2018. Wide stereo field recorded in NOS with pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones feeding a Sound Devices MixPre 3 recorder.

Swamp Forest Late Night

A far off night train whistles across a suburban pond as leopard frogs wake, their croaks overcoming the quiet evening in Mount Dora, Florida, December 2018. Recorded in XY stereo with Audio Technica BP4025 and Sound Devices MixPre3.

Night Train & Small Town Frogs

The amazing rhythmic sound of streams of thousands of oxygen bubbles being released during photosynthesis from a piece of pondweed - Hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum). Recorded in a pond and later in a bowl. Sunny. Air temp 18 deg C. DolphinEar Pro to SD MixPre 3. Hessay, Yorkshire April 2020.
https://simontelliott.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/a-miracle-of-nature-the-sound-of-a-plant/

Hornwort photosynthesis

A rich April dawn chorus in Hessay village, Yorkshire.
MKH8020/30 MS to SD MixPre 3

Cyprus Marsh Frogs

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