I started recording at about 6pm and picked up at 10 am or so. Unfortunately
the location I picked was completely overrun with peepers for several hours in
the early evening....
--- In Michael Raphael <> wrote:
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> Nice stuff. I've recorded in that same location. When time did you start
> recording?
>
> M.
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> On May 21, 2010, at 9:25 AM, David Michael wrote:
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> > Following Curt's post a few weeks back, I have finally posted some
> > results from an all-night recording taken at the Upper North Fork
> > Flowage in Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. The recording was made from Sat
> > May 1 to Sun May 2 after a day of very gusty winds - this made for
> > incredibly challenging recording conditions.
> >
> > Over the course of 12 hours, a great number of vocalizing species made
> > themselves known to the microphones. Among them are chorus frogs,
> > spring peepers, sandhill cranes, red-winged blackbirds, Canada geese,
> > ducks, snipe, woodpeckers of several species, sparrows, grouse, and
> > even a small mammal. From this full recording I have composited some
> > aural highlights that are in a rough chronological order beginning in
> > early evening and ending in the early morning.
> >
> > The composite recording begins with the calls of chorus frogs and
> > spring peepers preceding a unison call of sandhill cranes, geese and
> > waterfowl call as night falls. A small mammal passes the microphones
> > and a common snipe begins its courtship flights. Dawn excites the
> > red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, and woodpeckers in the distant forest
> > to sing as the wind picks up again.
> >
> > http://soundcloud.com/dmichael/sets/crex-meadows
> >
> > The recording was made with a parallel boundary array using two AT4022
> > microphones set back from the edge at about 1". Additionally I used a
> > spherical foam nose between the boundaries. The array was on a tripod
> > about 2 feet from the ground feeding into an Edirol R-44 field
> > recorder, recording at 24bit/44.1kHz.
> >
> > Both Rob Danielson and Paul Dickinson had recording rigs in the very
> > near vicinity. Rob's post of the evening's recording has a very
> > detailed timeline of the area including weather, light, and events.
> > Rob's recording can be hear and seen at http://tinyurl.com/2endkau .
> > Paul's recording is at
> > http://soundcloud.com/paul-dickinson/100501-craneunisoncall
> >
> > If you have enjoyed the recording, please consider downloading it at
> > http://davidmichael.bandcamp.com/album/crex-meadows. Included in the
> > download are two, one hour long edits of the best portions of the
> > overnight recording.
> >
> > Thanks for listening!
> > David
> >
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