Recorded beginning at 5:20am on 2020/04/25 at Corinne Jones Park (30.4082176, -87.2231345) using Zoom H2 (24/48) with MikroUsi pair taped to the fence surrounding the pond. In this unedited recording you'll hear frogs, crickets, and the sunrise chorus, along with the hum of the city, traffic, folks on their morning walks, the 6am bells chiming, and ending with fountains in the pond turning on.

20200425 Corinne Jones Park Sunrise

While recording the dawn chorus at Bayview Park on Sunday, May 3, 2020, I noticed bats circling in the clearing between the trees near where I was standing. Their sounds being ultrasonic I didn't hear them of course, but upon dropping the recording into Izotope RX and observing the spectrogram, I noticed lots of activity above 30khz that corresponded to the time in which I saw the bats. I pitched the recording down a few octaves, and filtered out the lower frequencies to isolate the bats as much as possible. Everything you are hearing is usually well above the range of human hearing. I'll post the complete unprocessed dawn chorus soon, but this was too exciting of a discovery to wait.

Bats at Bayview Park (pitched down and filtered)

Recorded beginning at 6:40pm on 2020/05/26 at Ft. Pickens (30.329182, -87.288353) using Zoom H2 (24/96) with MikroUsi pair taped to the concrete barrier/walkway near the ferry landing. Lots of wildlife in this clip.

Pensacola Sounds!