Name: Barred Owls Interacting, Monkey Calls Berk Co WV 5 - 30 - 2002 by WilHershberger in Nite animals
Duration: 30 s
Description: A pair, or more, of Barred Owls interacting with hoots and monkey calls. Berkeley County, WV. May 30, 2002.

Nite animals

"COTK" - continuous series of shushes, often in groups of 2’s and 3’s, and always from the tops of trees
Photo Credit:  Lang Elliott, miracleofnature.org

Common True Katydid

A pair, or more, of Barred Owls interacting with hoots and monkey calls. Berkeley County, WV. May 30, 2002.

Barred Owls Interacting, Monkey Calls Berk Co WV 5 - 30 - 2002

Red Fox calling in west Dyke Marsh about 6:35PM 12/20/2015.

Anthropogenic noise: cars on George Washington Memorial Parkway, and airplanes.

Recorded with FOstex FR-2, Sennheiser ME62, and Telinga parabola. Edited in Audacity: fade in/out only.

Red Fox

iphone recording @ 10:45pm June 19 2016. a distress call and wimpering. racoon (confirmed by friend at Macaulay Lab -- see for comparison http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/521435)

(image taken June 20, 2016)

Raccoon in distress

Swainson's Thrush singing

Wednesday June 7, 2017 7:15 pm
temperature low 50s
clear skies
between the tides

Sun Dew Trail where it intersects with trail to Ocean Beach
Schoodic Pennisula
Acadia National Park
Winter Harbor, ME

Fostex FR2
Sennheister ME 66 short shotgun
trimmed and normalized to Best Practices in Audacity
and because of surf noise -- high pass filter at 250 hz

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Swainson's Thrush 060717 715pm

Common Nighthawk "peenting" and "wing booms" 3:58am on top of Schoodic Head (Schoodic Div., Acadia National Park). Edited, leveled and due to gusting winds and ocean noise, did high pass filter at 250hz. 

Recorded with Fostex FR2 and Sennheiser ME62 (would have used a different mic if I had known he would be here! Came for dawn chorus so only had the omni mic.)

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Common Nighthawk at Schoodic Head

This is a distressed female Ruffed Grouse calling. I was not the primary cause of her stress but did take time to record it which I'm sure did nothing to soothe the poor gal. A pair of hikers had just passed me as I was recording on the Alder Trail (Schoodic Division, Acadia National Park). As I watched them walk down the trail, I could see a Ruffed Grouse just ahead of them. It seems they were as startled as she. I doubt she was aggressive (females typical feign a broken wing and move to distract "predators" away from their nesting site or chicks. Nonetheless, the man yelled for the grouse to "Get out of here!" and added an air-kick and flailing hands to emphasize his meaning. (I suspect the 2 hikers were scared and did not know how to interpret the grouse's behavior.)  

I felt a bit like an insensitive journalist asking the grouse how she felt about the violent gesture thrown her way, and so I eventually let her be. Though I had not moved an inch toward her since capturing her distress for posterity, she was still upset. 

Clear skies (though bad air quality day) and about 75 degrees at 8:38am. 

Fostex FR2 recorder, Senneheiser ME66 short shotgun mic.
Edited in Audacity, leveled, fade in/out.

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distressed female Ruffed Grouse 061317 838am

Common Yellowthroat at Blueberry Hill, Schoodic Div., Acadia National Park at 7:04am.

 Fostex FR2 recorder, Sennheiser ME66 short shotgun mic

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Common Yellowthroat at Blueberry HIll

Recorded Jun 13, 2017 at 9:54am on the Alder Trail, Schoodic Division, Acadia National Park.

Fostex FR2, Sennheiser ME 66

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Black-and-White Warbler 061317 954am

3 common nighthawks making their peenting calls and rattling (wings booms did occur minutes later but not in this portion of the recording)

They were following each other very very closely -- as if flying in formation (or chasing in territory?)


at the Overlook on Schoodic Head
Schoodic division 
Acadia National Park
Winter Harbor, ME



Friday June 16, 2017 3:56am
temperature 46 degrees
partly cloudy skies



Fostex FR2
Sennheister ME 62 omni mic
trimmed and normalized to Best Practices in Audacity

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spectrogram of rattles & peent created in Adobe Audition

(short) Common Nighthawks Rattling & Peenting 061617 356am

Swainson's Thrush (Spring Peeper-like sound in background -- "wee" call as defined by N. Pieplow-- is the call of another Swainson's Thrush) on trail to "Ocean Bench" off Sun Dew Trail, Schoodic Division, Acadia National Park. 

Recorded with Fostex FR2, Sennhesier ME 64 short shotgun mic.

Mostly cloudy, 54 degrees
calm seas 


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Swainson's Thrush 061517 619am

In shrub on causeway to Little Moose Island.

Mostly Sunny 60 degrees
incoming tide

Fostex FR2 recorder, Sennheiser ME 64. 

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Spectrogram created in Adobe Audition

Song Sparrow 062117 702am

On little loop trail after causeway to Little Moose, Schoodic Penisula, Acadia National Park.

Fostex FR2 Sennheiser ME 64.

Trimmed and levelled in Audacity.

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Spectrogram created in Adobe Audition.

Blue Headed Vireo 062117 645am

The sounds of drought. The first portion of this recording is from early August when the vegetation was still lush. This was the beginning of a two-month drought the decimated the singing insect populations in the Mid-Atlantic region. The second half of the recording in from later in September after the trees started to shed their leaves from lack of moisture. There had been no cool or cold nights to affect singing insect numbers. This is the sound of drought.

Night Time Insect Chorus Berkeley Co WV

A pair of Red Foxes mating (heard and seen) at the edge of the west Dyke Marsh & River Towers Condominiums, Alexandria, VA.  

Recorded at 10:06pm, March 6, 2020. 






1014 030620 1006pm

Red Foxes Mating

This collection of recordings accompanies the text of "Capturing Wildlife Sound: A Useful Guide."

1 - Welcome

I am a freelance nature photographer and nature sounds recordist.

Barred Owls Interacting, Monkey Calls Berk Co WV 5 - 30 - 2002

WilHershberger

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