Very clean and beautiful. Excellent spatial rendering

Are those one-syllable "koo"-s also Common Cuckoo sounds? There are at least four different birds here making these aberrant vocalizations!

toads sounds so nice, very good recording

Very beautiful work.  Is it part of a longer recording ?

Red deer stags rutting in the Carpathian Mountains, Bucovina, Romania.

Red Deer Rut In Bucovina

While exploring my local woodland during Winter Storm Bobby on 1/29/2022, I noticed a particularly loud and frequent creaking and popping coming from a large, dual-trunked yellow popular, Liriodendron tulipifera.

Upon further inspection, I found the popular was hollow and had a large, vertical crack running about 25' up the trunk. 

I setup my SASS microphone directly in front of the cavity and recorded for about an hour.

Unfortunately, a snow blower polluted most of the recording but I was able to capture about 20 minutes of pure tree creaks and pops! This recording is an excerpt from that longer file.

I plan to revisit this tree during every major wind storm with the hope of capturing the moment that it gives way and returns to the forest floor...stay tuned :)

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Tree Creaks Inside a Yellow Popular

Madagascar's dry forests are amazing biomes, full of weird flora and fauna. Huge baobabs tower over thorny scrub, dwarfing everything around them and creating a feeling of awe. Long version at https://youtu.be/Dnsz-1Jjmws

Madagascar dry forest sounds

Cervus elaphus hispanicus refers to the red deer of Portugal and Spain. It's slightly smaller than those across the Pyrenees.
The rutting season (referred to as 'brama' in Portugal) starts mid-August and goes until the end of September. 
The recording was in an area in interior Alentejo where wild boars and white-tailed deer live in big numbers and all can be heard throughout this segment.

Red deer call in the valley

Red Deer call in the valley

A dynamic meditation for inspiration, alignment or re-orientation with your Soul’s vibration and path.

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Feel It Now (#14)

Recorded 17th May 2022
Aragon, Spain

My alarm was set for 5am local time, about 45 minutes before the dawn chorus had been starting up on recent mornings in the hills. But I hadn't taken account of the full moon. Beware the power of the moon in a clear sky. When I switched on the recorder a few minutes later, this was what I heard: the larks all in full swing. 

There are Calandra Larks, Lesser Short-toed Larks and the incomparable Dupont's Lark here.

before dawn on the Ebro steppe

Sionskoe Lake

This is a compilation of several tracks available on the Rhythm of Kubah album which is downloadable in mp3 or FLAC format from https://wildambience.com/albums/rhythm-of-kubah/

Rhythm of Kubah

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Rhythm of Kubah - Sarawak, Borneo: Album Sample

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

This gentle insect chorus was recorded late at night on the Le Muracciole Farm on the outskirts of Canino in the Lazio region of Italy. The mics were placed close to a trickling stream resulting in a calm natural soundscape. 

Recorded 06.08.2020
Sony PCM A10 + 2 x LOM mikroUsi

Night Insect Chorus  - Canino, Lazio, Italy

A small swell pressing water and air between the ground ice and a bigger floe. Free water still, though the weather become colder. Recorded on a beautiful day with no wind and still open sea by Loukkeennokka shore in 

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210128/

(Sennheiser KE4 ab50cm, MixPre 32>24, no processing, 24/48 flac)

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