Heard today (A thread for wildlife sound recordings?)

[BrianI]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Lovely.

[PaulR]

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]

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]

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]

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

[PaulR]

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]

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]

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

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

[BrianI]

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

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

[PaulR]

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]

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]

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

[PaulR]

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

[BrianI]

Out with my trusty Olympus LS14 (and my DIY stereo pair microphones) at Calais Woods, Dunfermline yesterday as part of my allowed Lockdown Exercise:

https://youtu.be/8TwPBeJyFBA    Sonic Visualizer used to do the fancy scrolling spectrogram.