Author Topic: Heard today (Read 27629 times)

David Martin · « **Reply #25 on:** 16 April, 2017, 05:03:46 pm »

The song thrush call is such a tone that it is unmistakeable. I heard one as I walked back from staking out a bridge for otters (unsuccessfully) and then knew to look up at the top branches of the trees. There it was..

Song Thrush by David Martin, on Flickr

David Martin · « **Reply #26 on:** 18 April, 2017, 06:50:31 pm »

I've been playing with the BirdUp app which aims to identify birds by their sound. I went in via Balgay park as there is too much traffic noise on teh road. It identified varius things I didn't believe but did highlight a Bullfinch. I've never seen one there, but on playing the sample call it was very similar so score one there. Down on campus it found a chiffchaff, again another bird I have never seen (to my knowledge).

And the book 'Birdwatching with your eyes closed' has just landed on my desk.

cycleman · « **Reply #27 on:** 18 April, 2017, 08:04:53 pm »

red kites calling over the house this morning and a fox barking last night

Steph · « **Reply #28 on:** 21 April, 2017, 02:19:16 am »

My walk home from night shift yesterday morning: four song thrushes, a very vocal dunnock, a drumming yaffle, two robins, three wrens, a number of great tits, a blackbird and a chiffchaff.

I have a number of bird song CDs, but the Sample is a fave.

David Martin · « **Reply #29 on:** 21 April, 2017, 11:28:58 am »

Have you heard this program? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pnmxb

Stopped on the top of Cairn O'Mount on my way back from the race yesterday and listened - there was that creaky door sound of red grouse in the heather. Creaak-crik-crik-crik-crick.

Steph · « **Reply #30 on:** 04 June, 2017, 07:43:48 pm »

Which is usually followed, IME, by instructions to 'go back!'

Wowbagger · « **Reply #31 on:** 05 June, 2017, 11:59:12 pm »

Duelling nightingales in the Camargue.

https://www.facebook.com/100009276557793/videos/1824122474573620/

BrianI · « **Reply #32 on:** 25 August, 2017, 09:58:09 pm »

I put together some stills with the audio I recorded on Talisker Bay, Skye:

Worth listening with headphones on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_5QNTzsiVY

David Martin · « **Reply #33 on:** 08 April, 2018, 07:51:48 am »

I've recently taken delivery of a couple of AudioMoth recorders so took the opportunity to try them out. Unfortunately the software I was using to find bat calls was not well behaved so I had to scan through the files. Seems to work well, until one took a dive off the raining and into the Tay. Fortunately it hit the wall on the way down which bounced it out and onto a bit of mud above the water so I was able to scramble down and rescue it.
I was comparing various enclosures to see how badly they attenuate the noise. Result is I need to do a bit more work on mine.

David Martin · « **Reply #34 on:** 29 May, 2018, 11:42:08 pm »

I put the audiomoths in a local park. You do get strange looks wandering across the grass with a two section ladder

Unfortunately my maths was out by a bit (I was winging it) and the cards ran out of space. This is a bad thing as there is no filesystem protection - it will corrupt the filesystem and potentially destroy the card. Both of these happened. One card recoverable (and I got about 10% of the data). The other toast. literally.

Hard lesson learned.

BrianI · « **Reply #35 on:** 19 August, 2018, 09:34:37 pm »

Here is a recent recording I made at Pittenweem, down by the old sea water swimming pool.

I used my Olympus LS 14 digital audio recorder, with a furry wind shield over it's built in microphones.

Best to listen in HD mode on the youtubes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KyhXDFkncM

BrianI · « **Reply #36 on:** 02 December, 2018, 08:38:34 am »

Happy #SpectrogramSunday, folks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MABTqlmh084

Revisited a recording I made back in 2017 of the dawn chorus, with an animated scrolling spectrogram courtesy of ffmpeg.

hbunnet · « **Reply #37 on:** 02 December, 2018, 03:51:01 pm »

Lovely.

PaulR · « **Reply #38 on:** 03 December, 2018, 04:33:20 pm »

Here are a couple of recordings from my new home on the upper Thame. https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/owl-trill-and-blackbird
https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/reedwarbler

Recorded on a old Zoom H4. Fun to run these through the free SpectrumView app.

BrianI · « **Reply #39 on:** 31 March, 2019, 01:46:06 pm »

Happy Spectrogram Sunday folks!

Took a wander around a local bit of woodland behind the local crematorium / golf club last night with my trusty Olympus LS14 recorder. Flocks of Crows / magpies etc coming into roost. Saw a couple of bats as well, wish I had taken my bat detector with me... Shame about the traffic noise, such is wildlife sound recording in an urban environment.

Audio processed & visualized using video screen grab of Sonic Visualizer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL067XFj4B8

BrianI · « **Reply #40 on:** 31 March, 2019, 01:47:49 pm »

Quote from: PaulR on 03 December, 2018, 04:33:20 pm

Here are a couple of recordings from my new home on the upper Thame. https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/owl-trill-and-blackbird
https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/reedwarbler

Recorded on a old Zoom H4. Fun to run these through the free SpectrumView app.

Lovely recordings, PaulR

Jurek · « **Reply #41 on:** 31 March, 2019, 03:47:12 pm »

I have the sound of curlews recorded on Seasalter beach as the alarm on my iPhone.

PaulR · « **Reply #42 on:** 03 April, 2019, 09:15:04 pm »

I'm kind of hoping that we'll have curlews here a bit later in the year. I love the noise they make.

Here are some bits of noise from 24 March:https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/sets/24-march-2019

The longer clip features a bonus duck at about 27s.

BrianI · « **Reply #43 on:** 12 April, 2019, 07:30:39 pm »

It was certainly worth nosying around the woods behind the glamping hut I was staying at on Wednesday evening:

https://youtu.be/X-xeZtPOQoI

Audio visualised using Sonic Visualiser - a very interesting (and free!) app if you are into analysing audio.

https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ To create the video, I simply did a screen capture of Sonic Visualiser playing back.

BrianI · « **Reply #44 on:** 12 April, 2019, 08:08:00 pm »

And a dawn chorus at 6:30am on the Thursday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCOsVdylZ9g

BrianI · « **Reply #45 on:** 22 April, 2019, 06:15:44 pm »

Testing the DIY Hydrophone, recording some molluscs in a rockpool, munching away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ThrlvRBt4Q

PaulR · « **Reply #46 on:** 22 May, 2019, 01:55:22 pm »

Quote from: BrianI on 22 April, 2019, 06:15:44 pm

Testing the DIY Hydrophone, recording some molluscs in a rockpool, munching away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ThrlvRBt4Q

Brilliant stuff - that's dedication!

PaulR · « **Reply #47 on:** 22 May, 2019, 01:56:05 pm »

On Sunday I took my Zoom H4 out for a walk by the Thame and enjoyed cuckoo, reed warblers, sedge warblers, reed buntings, wrens and passing aircraft.
https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/sets/birdsong-may-2019

PaulR · « **Reply #48 on:** 23 June, 2019, 10:11:27 am »

We seem to have gained a resident song thrush here
https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/song-thrush-in-garden

PaulR · « **Reply #49 on:** 23 February, 2020, 09:53:29 pm »

I'm really looking forward to better weather - at the very least less wind so that I can capture more wildlife sounds. I've just been reminding myself about these nightjars near Dunwich last July: https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/nightjars-at-westleton-heath-10-07-19