Name: Atchafalaya Swamp Basin, Summer, 2022-08-02, Dusk Transition by Andy Martin, Field Recordist
Duration: 2 h 1 min
Description: Day transitions to night through dusk in the Atchafalaya Basin on a hot summer evening. Swamp Cicadas, Walker's Cicadas, Dog Day Cicadas, Black Legged Meadow Katydids, Common Katydids, Cricket Frogs, Green Tree Frogs, Green Frogs, and more come and go throughout.

If we weren't sure it was a Loggerhead Shrike before, this gives us more reason to think so.

Green Tree Frogs, Dryophytes cinereus, are comfortable enough for the first pods to start singing.

I'd make up a name for this, but I'm truly curious if anyone else knows what it is. Is it an annoyed cicada? An oddly buzzy bird?

Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis, are singing good night

Lesser Angle-wing, Microcentrum retinerve, easily recognizable but often missed

The mechanical grinding of a Walker's Cicada, Megatibicen pronotalis walkeri, can continue for a long time

After nearly 7 minutes of continuous grinding, the Walker's Cicada finally falls silent for now

In fault chorus, Green Tree Frogs sound more a schoolyard of honker-bearing children than a community of frogs.

High in the tree sing Common True Katydids, Pterophylla camellifolia

Species: song thrush, greylag goose, common chiffchaff etc...

Song Thrush was captured by Telinga Universal MK2 parabolic reflector & Sennheiser MKH8020, backgournd ambience track: MS stereo Sennheiser MKH8040, MKH 30, 48Khz/24bit into MixPre6

Location: Zahorie, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Date: 28. 3. 2021
Starting of recording: 6:20h
Temperature: 3-8 °C
Photo by: Soňa Sommerová

Song Thrush Dawn Chorus Zahorie Slovakia

Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad (Gastrophryne carolinensis)

Western Narrow-mouthed Toad (Gastrophryne olivacea)

Northern Crawfish Frog (Lithobates areolatus circulosus)

Day transitions to night through dusk in the Atchafalaya Basin on a hot summer evening. Swamp Cicadas, Walker's Cicadas, Dog Day Cicadas, Black Legged Meadow Katydids, Common Katydids, Cricket Frogs, Green Tree Frogs, Green Frogs, and more come and go throughout.

Atchafalaya Swamp  Basin, Summer, 2022-08-02, Dusk Transition

I enjoyed recording some winds recently, in this section there are some grasses, loose sand, and occasional birdsong, and various tones from the shape of the spot where I had the mics

Desert Wind with Grasses and Sand

The Red Deer Rut (Brame du Cerf) recorded in the heart of the  the Orleans Forest, the largest Forest in France. 

Zoom F3 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH8020s
23.09.2023

Red Deer Rut - Forêt d'Orleans, France

This is a long recording from a ridge near the ocean, so the surf is in the background, there is bird and animal activity at dusk and dawn, and a big thunderstorm rolls in.  The Yellow-Throated Toucan is very active, and the Scarlet Macaws, Tinamou, and Mantled Howler Monkeys are also calling at dusk. I removed one section of a few minutes where the rainfall was so heavy it started leaking through and hitting the mics but otherwise left this recording intact.  I used my Sennheiser Double MidSide system with a Sound Devices MixPre recorder.

Dusk To Dawn Costa Rica Osa Peninsula Coastal Forest Thunderstorm

A herd of red cows approaching us from front and passing by on a warm September noon of 2019 at the hills of Southern Urals. Lots of energetic mooing, shepherd shouts and whistles, some birds chirping and moderate wind. I love this recording for its brutal and raw energy.
Recorded with Nevaton VR FOA mic into Zaxcom Fusion 12, decoded to binaural with Harpex-X plugin. Please listen on headphones for correct spatial reproduction.

Red Cows at Southern Urals_BINAURAL

For a long time I wanted to record a really surrounding, enveloping and moving wind through reed. I found the perfect conditions at the forest lakes in Karelia. This track sounds like some witches are chattering around, whispering their spells. 
Description: LAKE MARSH-near wooded shore. Summer. Morning 10 55. Wind gusts rustling, whispering, chattering scary through dry reed and leaves, Birds chirping faint. Mic surrounded by reed, facing shore
Recorded with Nevaton MC50 Quad into Zaxcom Fusion 12. Stereo Mix of Front and a bit of Rear channels.
This recording is a part of the "Northern Europe Vol. 2 Lakeside Ambiences Summer" sound effects library

Wind Through Reed Gusts Rustling Whispering Chattering Scary_ST MIX

"LARX002 67 Lake near wooded shore Summer Night 00 05 Very quiet Fog Arctic Loons two grunting and howling sequence Longhorn beetle larvae ticking cracking Splashes around small ST Demo". This is an ambience from my sound effects library Karelia, Northern Europe Vol. 2: Lakes and Streams. Summer". All rights reserved. You can learn more and buy this Library at my site 
https://larxaudio.com

Lake Summer Night Arctic Loons Grunting And Howling, Longhorn Beetles, Splashes ST

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