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

A celebration of nature's symphony taking place on the first Sunday of May, International Dawn Chorus Day is the worldwide celebration of nature's greatest symphony. All across the world people rise early to revel in the sweet sound of birdsong, from rattling wrens in Rotherham to crooning cowbirds in the Caribbean. 

And remember you can always just open your window - and listen...

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/dawn-chorus-day

Dawn Chorus with Woodpecker Guilden Morden

This recording captures life at the heart of an urban beehive on a rooftop garden in the 20th district of Paris. The colony is estimated to be between 60,000-80,000 bees at this time of year. I attached two small omni lav mics to a metal coat hanger and dropped this into the centre of the hive, then closed the lid of the hive and left the recorder running. 

A big thank you to beekeeper Marta Bonati for allowing me access to her hives and for taking the time to help me record.

Recorded 25.06.2022
Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x DPA 4060s

Life In An Urban Beehive - Paris, France

Dawn on 1st May, recorded on a small wetland by my cabin in the Black River Valley, Sweden. Mix of wetland and forest birds.

Dawn Black River Valley Sweden

The call of a juvenile White-Backed Vulture begging its parents for food.  First the recording is played back at normal speed, then at half speed and finally at 1/4 speed. Recorded in Limpopo, South Africa. Read about the expedition at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/2017/9/4/field-recording-trip-to-south-africa-2016

White-Backed Vulture call

Black throated divers Lake Ojesjon 26th April 2018 90 secs

Black throated divers Ojesjon 260418 90 secs

Birdsong Dawn Chorus, Eaux Claires Valley, Charente, France

It was great to hear the bats had returned to our garden this spring.  I think they are Common Pipistrelles - but I'm happy to be corrected.

A pair of MKH8020 mics 30cm spaced AB.  The left one inside a Rycote 'Super Softie' windjammer, the right one 'naked'.  To SoundDevices 702 recorder set at 192kHz, 24 bit recording.

The uploaded track is a mix of the track as recorded mixed with a 'hetrodyne' copy of that track.  The hetrodyne track was high pass filtered at 20kHz to remove all the human audible sound and then passed through the Reaper ReaPitch plugin and pitch-shifted down 3 and a half octaves.  What you hear a mix of the human audible sounds mixed with the 'bat sounds' pitched down by 3 and a half octaves.  Simples!

I notice that the Rycote 'Super Softie' greatly attenuates the bats ultrasonic sounds as the pitched-down mix is much quieter in the left channel than in the right channel - which was recorded with an identical microphone but without any windjammer.

It's all recorded in my back garden - with plenty of passing traffic, birdsong etc.

Bats in a Locked-down back garden

Tawny owls disturbing the dawn chorus and annoying blackbirds.  

Recorded at 5:30am approx.
26th April 2020
Joyden's Wood, Bexley

Recorder:  Sound Devices SD633
Microphones:  2x DPA4060s, 2x Sony ECM678 shotgun microphones

Tawny Owls Upsetting Blackbirds

It’s 6am in Tsavo NP at Kanderi swamp. A thin dawn chorus braves the dry season, soon joined by a male lion advertising his territory.

Bats in a Locked-down back garden

ryouell

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