As quite often in the past, I might have the answer to my own inquiry,
thanks to the help of a former neighbor that is a NY State DEC
officer. He listened to the MP3 file (despite the loud annoying cough)
and asked me if there was a Beaver lodge on the pond... which there
was, although we saw no activity during the day or heard no tail
splashing. The bellows (or groans) are probably the nocturnal
communications of a Beaver, although I couldn't find another sound
file on the Net to compare with, to be 100% certain .
To the kind member who emailed me and told me the file was =
"not at all listenable and ruined by the cough".... I apologize for
troubling you to listen, but didn't twist your arm... or have another
example of the sounds to post, unfortunately. I can assure you that I
am going to slap a nicotine patch on my camping partner, and distance
my tent (and mics) from him on our next overnighter, as he often
snores loudly, also. I'll probably try the Sasquatch group (much
friendlier) for any future nocturnal sound inquiries.
We are heading down to the same area this weekend, but to a different
track of state forest.
Regards,
Bill
--- In "William Ruscher Jr."
<> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I just uploaded an MP3 (titled "mystery sounds and Bud
> cough") in the files section, that has several nocturnal sounds that I
> am unable to ID. I recorded this (segment of a longer recording) in
> Western NY, in a track of state forest next to a pond in the early AM.
> The sounds came from across the large pond (waking me out of a dead
> sleep) ,and might have contributed (echo on the water) to distorting
> them a bit. There are 4 deeper bellow type sounds, and another higher
> pitched sound that is in between the 1st and 2nd bellow. The single
> higher pitched sound might be a "hoot", as there were Barred and GH
> Owls in the area overnight, but the deeper sound leaves me stumped. I
> am hoping for some opinions from the group. I was thinking either
> something possibly man made, or a mammal making a sound that I've
> never heard before. My good friend coughed from the next tent over,
> while the mics were attached to a tree in between our tents.
> Equipment used was a Fostex FR2-LE recorder and a pair of Sony ECM-55b
> mics.
> My Thanks to Bernie Krause (and the others that contributed to the
> discussion in July), for suggesting using these mics and attaching
> them on each side of a (head sized) tree. This has worked out well
> for me for, being a portable solution on hikes, as well as tent
camping.
> Three other recordings from this outing, along with a descriptive post
> can be heard at this link:
>
> http://naturerecordists.com/posts/26
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill
>
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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