Name: ORCAS 170609 0506 by Phil
Duration: 3 min 19 s
Description: Recording birds when a pod of orcas went by.

Great blow (and bird) sounds! Where was this recorded?

A lek of Sharp-tailed Grouse. Males display and fight for the attention of females. The females wander through the lek looking for outstanding males with which to mate. This lek was recorded using a Crown Microphone's SASS unit retrofitted with MKH 20 mics on a tripod positioned low to the ground and covered with a sage-colored mess. A long cable was run to the recorder which was left on a camp stool 80 feet from the mics.

Sharp-tailed Grouse lek, South Dakota

I placed the microphones a few metres from a small stream in upland rainforest and left them to capture the dawn chorus. You can hear the raucous calls of Orange-footed Scrubfowl (one of Australia's three species of megapode or mound-builder) as well as the unusual wails of Spotted Catbird. Occasionally Northern Barred Frogs (Mixophyes schevilli)call from the leaf litter.

Dawn at Lumholtz Lodge

Dawn at Lumholtz Lodge, Atherton Tablelands, Australia

After dawn, the frog chorus of the night dissipates and the feathered animals start to sing. Birds sit on their favorite snags and call, others in the marsh sing the morning delight. The pacific wren sings his beautiful melodies.
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An Ideal Bird Habitat

These sounds were recorded at sunrise in the Wehea Protected Forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Listen for the rhinoceros hornbills around 16:25 and beyond!

Wehea Forest 02 - Post-sunrise insects, gibbons, squirrels, woodpeckers and other birds

This recording features close calls of a Common Pauraque (along with distant individuals) and also the soft musical trills of two Eastern Screech-Owls. Recorded at dusk in Bentsen Rio-Grande Valley State Park near Mission, Texas.  7:54pm, 3 March 2017.

The haunting calls of Common Pauraques are one of the most memorable night sounds of the Lower Rio Grande region of Texas. The gentle trills of Eastern Screech-Owls are also a common night sound in the area.

Pauraques and Screech-owls at Dusk

A wonderfully soothing mid-morning soundscape recorded at Lost Maples State Natural Area near Vanderpool, Texas. 9:30am, 7 March 2017.

Features the gurgling of the Sabinal River and the sounds of various birds, including the downward-cascading whistles of Canyon Wren, the complex songs of Bewick's Wren, and the low coos of White-tipped Dove.

Recorded using a binaural microphone setup.

Lost Maples Morning Chorus

Recording birds when a pod of orcas went by.

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Nighttime along a small Arizona stream.  Crickets dominate, but you can also hear the growly sounds of Chiricahua leopard frogs and western 
screech owl, and very faintly, great horned owl.

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Night at Mattie Spring

Don your headphones and join me on a windy ridge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park! Listen and enjoy a full 15-minutes of soothing binaural immersion featuring a panoply of bird songs typical of high altitude spruce-fir forest in the southern Appalachian(be sure to listen using headphones … otherwise it may sound like a bunch of noise!).

It was mid-May in the year 2000. I was traveling in an old Chevy van and had just spent the night on the ridge. I rose at the break of dawn and was disappointed at all the wind. Deciding not to be stymied, I ventured into the spruce-fir stand and soon homed-in on a Winter Wren, singing excitedly from a low branch. I quickly set up my soundscape microphone, placed it in a special homemade "wind box," and then hit record. 

I'm quite pleased with this spacious soundscape. It features the songs and calls of a number of birds, plus a mammal sound. At the beginning, note the prominent songs of a Winter Wren and a Black-capped Chickadee, followed over time by the caws of American Crows, scratching sounds of a Red Squirrel, the squeaky songs of a Gray Catbird, the rising zhree-zhree-zhree-zeeee of a Black-throated Blue Warbler, the sprightly pleased, pleased, pleased t'meet'cha! of a Chestnut-sided Warbler, and finally the soft musical whistles of a Robin.

Recorded 7am, 18 May 2000, along trail to Clingman's Dome.

Wind Over the Ridge

Northern Saw-whet Owl, Common Nighthawk, Spring Peepers. Also White-throated Sparrow, and Green Frogs, Gray Tree Frogs.

Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park, Maine

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Saw-whet Owl, Nighthawk, & Peepers

The little river gurgles and chortles, accompanied by birds.
A longer version of this recording is available for purchase or download from:
https://www.orfium.com/track/525441/san-pedro-river-in-spring-mtngirl/

ORCAS 170609 0506

Phil

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