10 swampy evening post-dusk minutes inside the East Atchafalaya Protection Levee near Little Tenses Bayou. An Alligator Bellows.

Atchafalya Swamp basin, Louisiana, United States, Spring 2022

Compulsion Games sent me into Southern swamps and wilderness to record swamp ambiences, insects, frogs, and birds for their upcoming game South of Midnight. This is just a taste of what I got to listen to...

The post-dusk twilight ambience of the cypress swamp around Sullivan Lake is a loud, but steady chorus of various frog species all calling out in their own niche, like an invisible orchestra of tiny instruments. The bugle-like honking of Green Tree Frogs, the tiny snores of Cope's Gray Tree Frogs, the infrequent banjo-twangs of Green Frogs, and the distant marble-clicking of Blanchard's Cricket Frogs on the lake itself.
Above it all call Lesser Angle-wing Katydids from the treetops, while crickets of many types create a steady stream trills and chirps from wherever they can.

The spectrogram of a swampy night like this is a beautiful piece of orchestration, perfectly illustrating the Acoustic Niche hypothesis.

Orchestrated Frogs and Insects in Cypress Swamp post-dusk ambience, Sullivan Lake, August 2022

Compulsion Games sent me into Southern swamps and  wilderness to record swamp ambiences, insects, frogs, and birds for their upcoming game South of Midnight. This is just a taste of what I got to listen to...

Alligators... being Alligators
Also present:
Green Frogs
Bullfrogs
Pig Frogs
Green Tree Frogs
Southern Cricket Frogs
Toads (uncertain of the species... Fowler's? Woodhouse's?)

Alligators! Atchafalya Swamp Basin, Louisiana, 2022-04-22, Morning Twilight 0401

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