I was recently fortunate to have recorded a marvelous night of early spring frog calls along the edge of a sawgrass (Cladium spp.), saltbush (Baccharis halimifolia) and wax myrtle (Morella cerifera) lined brackish tidal ecosystem.
I'd originally set the recorder and microphones up to capture the experience of a brisk breeze blowing through a beautiful thicket of evergreen wax myrtle leaves.
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The salty gusts played the wax myrtle leaves with orchestral precision, making fine nature's melody around my ears. The ebb and flow of wind whoosh caught my attention enough to make me think an overnight recording would prove worth the effort.
What I did not expect was what happened soon after sunset when the winds quickly settled down and the night air came alive with a night-long concert of frog calls.
I'll discuss in another post the variety of calls heard over the progressing hours of the new moon dark night into the wee hours of the morning. This night there were calls of the Southern Leopard Frog, Green Tree Frog, Bronze Frog, Pig Frog and many more.
Honestly, there are many times when I'd rather listen to nature's music than any human music band.
My small recording combo included a camo water resistant bag, an older Sony PCM M10 recorder, LOM mikroUsi PIP microphones, and wind bubbles. The drop bag unit was hung over a wax myrtle branch about four feet off the ground with the microphones positioned in a quasi diurnal placement.
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