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On the far end of our garden we have two spruce trees. An Icterine warbler (Hippolais icterina) started singing on the first tree at 7.15 am. Meanwhile there were two Eurasian collared doves on the second spruce. A few moments later, the latter began singing too, and delicately accompanied the song of the Icterine warbler.
 
Unfortunately, our garden is usually very noisy. However, this Spring morning was unusually quiet. I had previously never heard an Icterine warbler singing in our garden. Luckily I had some recording equipment close at hand.

Date: 6. 6. 2024
Time: 7. 15 - 7.30 am
Place: Židlochovice
Equipment: Telinga parabolic dish

Icterine warbler in my garden

A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the woodpecker to the success of the duck to best and breed.
Noisy and loud, females have multiple calls but their signature all-purpose contact call  "ooo-eek" is the most familiar, and once heard it's hard to forget..
These birds are low-flyers and often the last to return home at dusk after a day of dispersed foraging. I've been in swamps where it seemed like I was being buzzed by an endless stream of screeching Wood Ducks, flying by mere feet above my head.

Each recording here is in two parts -- the first is isolated, clean, and ready for implementation in a media project. The latter half is the sound in its musty, noisy original state.

Wood Ducks move around and do not call continuously. Calls are collected and strung together in order-of-occurrence, grouped by individual, then by like-type.

Read more here: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/wooduc/cur/introduction

All sound is originally recorded by me.
The image is used by cc: "Male Wood Duck" by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse

I record wildlife and soundscapes for living! Birds are one of my specialties, along with frogs and insects. If you would like to license something you hear on my SoundCloud, inquire about other recordings in my deep library, or discuss recording something specific, send me a message (link in bio). Heck, if you just want to chat about nature sounds and birds, feel free to send me a message!


Wood Duck, Female Flight Calls (AMNS387156)

Wood Duck, Female Contact Calls 01 (AMNS163145)

Wood Duck, Male Squeals (AMNS126680)

Wood Duck, Female Advertisement Calls (AMNS730521)

A short representative sample of Wood Duck recordings. Wood Ducks, Aix sponsa, are common ducks of swamps, marshes, and other riparian habitats in North America. Being the only duck to nest in tree cavities, they depends on the holes drilled by Pileated Woodpeckers, linking the survival of the woodpecker to the success of the duck to best and breed.
Noisy and loud, females have multiple calls but their signature all-purpose contact call "ooo-eek" is the most familiar, and once heard it's hard to forget..
These birds are low-flyers and often the last to return home at dusk after a day of dispersed foraging. I've been in swamps where it seemed like I was being buzzed by an endless stream of screeching Wood Ducks, flying by mere feet above my head.

Each recording here is in two parts -- the first is isolated, clean, and ready for implementation in a media project. The latter half is the sound in its musty, noisy original state.

Wood Ducks move around and do not call continuously. Calls are collected and strung together in order-of-occurrence, grouped by individual, then by like-type.

Read more here: birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/woo…ur/introduction

All sound is originally recorded by me.
The image is used by cc: "Male Wood Duck" by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ma…/?ref=openverse

I record wildlife and soundscapes for living! Birds are one of my specialties, along with frogs and insects. If you would like to license something you hear on my SoundCloud, inquire about other recordings in my deep library, or discuss recording something specific, send me a message (link in bio). Heck, if you just want to chat about nature sounds and birds, feel free to send me a message!


Wood Duck, Female Contact Calls 02 (AMNS368449)

Clippy EM272 stereo pair 60cm apart into Zoom F3

Midnight in the Frog Breeding Pools

I don't take moments like this for granted these days, knowing how fast this species has declined in the Uk, this might even be the last time I see a pair holding a territory like this, which makes it even more of a magical recording for me. It's a simple song, but they are capable of a complex variety of different calls and song types, some of which you hear as the pair interact with each other before the male put on a good show for her. 

Gear: Sound Devices MixPre 6 ii / Schoeps Mk 4 inside Telinga Dish + Stereo MK 2's 

Willow Tit Pair Song - MixPre-7339

I never turn my dish away from these guys, they are so loud and that buttery smooth warble is just epic. I just wish they'd stay still!!

Gear: Sound Devices MixPre 6 ii / Schoeps Mk 2 inside Telinga Dish + Stereo MK 2's

Nuthatch Song - MixPre-7335

Redpoll not doing so great in my area and overall in Wales I believe there are downwards trends so was happy to stumble across a small flock of around 10-15 that were drinking from an upland stream, along with larger flock of Siskin and Goldfinch, so it was quite noisy at the well. 

Redpoll Buzz Calls - MixPre-7484

Always nice to confirm a breeding pair as you're never too certain till you find a nest but these guys are hanging on in the same spot over the span of a few weeks now so pretty certain they're settled in. 

Gear: Sound Devices MixPre 6 ii - Telinga Dish With Schoeps Mk 2 inside + Schoeps Stereo Mk 2's outside 

Willow Tit Pair - MixPre-7512

pad sound design, spoon, fork, lamp, medicine bottle, orthodox chant, breathing, whistling, pencil, table punching - everything was played by me

ᎴᏋᏗᏖᏂ ᏖᎧ ᏖᏂᏋ ᏇᎧᏒᏝᎴ(ᏂᏋᏗᏉᏋᏁ'Ꮥ ᏰᏝᎥᏕᏕ:IV)

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FROGS RANA PEREZI IN THE MORNING MS STEREO RECONRDING 

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First time recording this species staying still for a change! they usually see me coming and dart off back down stream but this guy was too occupied in luring in a female. 

Gear: Sound Devices Mixpre 6 ii / Telinga Dish w/Schoeps Mk 4 + Stereo Mk 2's 

Grey Wagtail Stream S - MixPre-7653

This piece has a very different tone and feel than Sound Rinse No. 3, but it was inspired by the same audio recording the percussionist Brian Rice made of an amazing, polytonal and polyrhythmic cascade of rainwater falling through the downspout visible this photograph. An uncut copy of that recording is the backbone of the piece, to which Jon added electric organ chords and a copy (at the beginning and end) of a 7 second clip from Brian's recording. / / / Like other Sound Rinse Suite selections, “Kinda Kabukiish" combines what we commonly refer to as "musical instruments" and "natural" environmental sounds. Hopefully, this series can illustrate how, in the larger scheme of things, sound itself is a "natural" phenomenon, regardless of how we characterize its source.
Release date: 28 May, 2025
Caption: Kinda Kabukiish: Downspout, Rainwater, Electric Organ

Sound Rinse No.4: Kinda Kabukiish

Dawn chorus on the wetland. You can hear these species on the recording: great reed warbler (primarily), common cuckoo and mute swan
Date: 8. 6. 2025
Time: 4.05 - 5.30 am
Weather conditions: temperature 16°C, wind: 2m/s, partly cloudy
Place: Vranovice, South Moravia
Equipment: Telinga parabolic dish

Great reed warbler - dawn chorus on the wetland

After a little less than a lifetime of recording sights and sounds--as an academic and as a regular person--I'm exploring what they mean to me and to others (with thanks to Brian Rice and Don Walker for their inspirational music and music making).

Field Recordist / Sound designer
Shhhhh. Listening to nature.

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Tomáš Šenkyřík (CZ) is a musicologist with interest in field recordings. He is interested in acoustic ecology and discovering musical structures in nature. He is a founder of a Moravian soundmap.

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