Name: Étangs de Pont-Audemer (27) forme filtrée au sud-est (B) le 2 février 2024 au soir by Olivier Swift
Duration: 10 min

Prise de son d'ambiance sur 10 minutes à Pont Audemer un 2 février 2024 à 17h29 avec un Zoom H6 et sa capsule MSH6. Version filtrée à 500 Hz et une réduction de bruit. Les principaux sons audibles avec les repères en secondes :
2.3 3.5 Gallinule poule d'eau
4.8 5.5 Pie bavarde
4.8 12.5 Cygne tuberculé
15.7 19.8 Pie bavarde
24.3 26.3 Mésange bleue
31.5 33.8 Mésange bleue
32.0 41.5 Moto
41.1 47.0 Grive musicienne
53.4 54.5 Gallinule poule d'eau
58.4 95.4 Moto
60.0 62.7 Corneille noire
69.6 72.1 Grive musicienne
100.7 102.9 Pic vert
101.4 110.5 Foulque noire
103.8 104.7 Canard colvert
123.3 124.4 Pie bavarde
131.9 137.4 Troglodyte mignon
135.9 137.8 Mouton
137.8 139.3 Pie bavarde
148.9 161.2 Foulque noire
161.9 165.6 Pie bavarde
170.1 176.7 Foulque noire
178.7 186.3 Pie bavarde
184.9 214.6 Foulque noire
192.9 197.7 Grive musicienne
216.7 225.9 Foulque noire
218.5 286.8 Orite à longue queue
222.7 223.9 Pie bavarde
225.6 226.8 Pinson des arbres
247.7 250.3 Grive musicienne
254.5 256.4 Mouton
260.4 267.9 Foulque noire
267.5 269.3 Mouton
274.5 276.4 Pie bavarde
285.5 290.2 Grive musicienne
293.0 302.7 Foulque noire
293.3 322.9 Grive draine
304.4 308.5 Humain
324.7 339.1 Foulque noire
344.7 353.8 Foulque noire
355.5 357.1 Gallinule poule d'eau
362.7 364.5 Galinule poule d'eau
369.0 369.8 Canard colvert
370.4 371.2 Gallinule poule d'eau
371.5 407.3 Rougegorge familier
376.3 420.8 Pie bavarde
412.2 447.3 Rougegorge familier
431.1 432.2 Foulque noire
431.6 436.0 Mouton
450.4 451.9 Mouton
450.4 519.6 Rougegorge familier
456.3 456.9 Pie bavarde
502.7 518.0 Pie bavarde
520.8 530.9 Foulque noire
525.9 543.8 Grive draine
546.5 556.1 Foulque noire
559.8 565.0 Foulque noire
566.0 567.5 Pie bavarde
568.6 572.6 Troglodyte mignon
585.8 596.2 Foulque noire

Eure

Étangs de Pont-Audemer (27) forme filtrée au sud-est (B) le 2 février 2024 au soir

From dusk to dawn with two pairs of cranes and one or two single male contenders. In this recording you will hear almost infrasound (80-200 Hz) growls and heavy panting as the males chase each other in the wetland and of course the trumpeting of cranes through the night. An amazing experience to be this close. Huddunge, Uppsala. April 9, 2024.

Mixpre 3ii + Lewitt 440 Pure in ortf

Cranes like you never heard them before!

The Black Woodpecker has spring feelings and this droprig recording captured his drumming, announcing that this territory is his. Lots of other calls interspersed among the drumming.

Nåsten, Uppsala. February 11, 2025.
Zoom F3 + Clippy EM272 as tree ears

Europe's largest woodpecker drumming

On hour without interruption at dawn at the Etang des Landes (Creuse, France). Already many bird species for the season. Water birds, then when the light comes on, a few forest birds. Small mammals rummage through tufts of dry grass near the microphones. In the distance, sometimes, flocks of birds take flight like a low hum.

Recorded on March 9, 2025 with a Nagra LB and a pair of Sennheiser MKH8020 in AB.

One hour at dawn at the Etang des Landes (Creuse, France)

Cette semaine, retour en France dans le département de la Lozère, sur le lac de Charpal. C'est une retenue d'eau douce servant à alimenter en eau toute l'année la ville de Mende. Situé à 1326m d'altitude, il gèle une grande partie de l'hiver et devient un lieu magique pour écouter et enregistrer les chants du lac. Un mélange subtil de craquements, d'explosions et de crépitements du au soleil qui agit sur sa surface comme sur une peau de tambour.

VSN013_FRANCE_Lac de Charpal_F Deroussen

Now is the time to listen for drumming woodpeckers. In this recording I have mixed all woodpecker species that drum regularly in Sweden. Three drums each and in the following order: great spotted, lesser spotted, white-backed, three-toed, grey-headed and black. Green woodpecker almost never drums.

Recorded in Uppland 2022-2025.

Drumming of all Swedish woodpeckers

Owls and foxes have an excellent breeding year so far this year. I hear Tawny Owls almost "everywhere" and this male and female were courting each other last night and paired at least twice (the high-pitched chirping). 

Uppsala. March 19, 2025.
Zoom F3 + Clippy EM272

Pairing Tawny Owls

On a bright and sunny mid-March day, the pond is warming up with sounds.
This is my most detailed recording of Corixa punctata (aka Lesser water boatman) to date.

Can the Lesser and Greater families be told apart through sound alone? Please let me know. What seems clear is that it is possible to discern between some lesser varieties, as demonstrated by Marco Presente in this recording:
https://soundcloud.com/marco-pesente/micronecta-sp-lesser-water

**The sounds get really loud and right at the peak of the Fletcher-Munson curve so please take care of your ears**

Species: Lesser Water Boatman (Corixa punctata)
Location: Middle Spernal, Warwickshire, UK
Date and time: 19 March 2025, 13h30
Habitat: Freshwater pond, wetland

Gear
Aquarian Audio A5s, Zoom F3

Étangs de Pont-Audemer (27) forme filtrée au sud-est (B) le 2 février 2024 au soir

Olivier Swift

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