September 2016 PFR12068, 160911, foredeck-ambience, North Sea, offshore, Sennheiser MKH8020/30
Author: Patrick
Drömling VII – Summer
September 2016 End of July, early August adult birds usually are busy with feeding their chicks or already moult quietly hidden in the shrubbery. From time to time you can hear males singing in aim to teach their offspring species-specific songs, probably in particular dialects. But the time of exuberant dawn choruses and day and night time singing is… Continue reading Drömling VII – Summer
Zephyr through shrubbery
August 2016 Excerpt of a long duration recording made at a field border next to a wind energy plant. PFR12042, 1-00, wind-energy-plant, Great Green Bush Cricket Tettigonia viridissima, advertising song Klein Leine, Germany, MS-stereo, MKH30 + MKH8020
Remain
July 2016 Midyear is usually the time for a short UK trip. The Wildlife Sound Recording Society holds it’s annual meeting and this is the best opportunity to meet some sound recordists, having chats about recent trips, new equipment or this year, the so called brexit. On my way to the Rutland Water Reserve I… Continue reading Remain
Lil’ Bittern
Juli 2016 From time to time I visit an area near Leipzig comprising some lakes, meadows and beautiful deciduous forests. It inhabits several rare bird species but is only rarely observed and therefore wildife is poorly documented. This time I found my second Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus in that area. PFR11908, 2-11, 160622, Little Bittern… Continue reading Lil’ Bittern
Mallorca of the north
January 2016 In June 2014 I went to the annual meeting of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society at Rutland Wetland Reserve. Chris Watson the new president of the society presented sound recordings made on filming trips for Sir David Attenborough’s series Frozen Planet– no need to mention how inspiring it was once again. Chris invited… Continue reading Mallorca of the north
They say no, we say yes
January 2016 After one year of weekly racist marches in Leipzig, Leipzig’s antifascist youth decided to send a clear signal. In mid of December a demonstration against a planned Nazi march through Leipzig’s left-wing dominated borough Connewitz ended up with riots. As penalty for that the Leipzig Police imposed a ban on meetings for the… Continue reading They say no, we say yes