Recorded on the wooden bridge between Skobyanka and Ostrovok, the two remote areas in Sergiyev Posad: peal of bells from the two churches in the distance, trains’ clatter and horns, grasshoppers and flies on a hot summer day.
Recorded August 13th, 2011 (MS-TFB-2)
Published June 24th, 2011.
Why don’t we put our heads into a blooming wild rose shrub?
Recorded June 10st, 2011 (MS-TFB-2)
Published June 12th, 2011
Here it is, a nightingale singing. It looks like the birds have dropped the guard now as I stopped about two meters away, and the warble was still in full swing. Recorded beside the Metrology department building in Severny area, Sergiyev Posad.
Recorded May 30th, 2011 (MS-TFB-2)
Published June 1st, 2011.
A bird came and pecked 140 characters up – oontz.ru is on Twitter now.
And this is a chaffinch bird recorded beside the Oktyabr cultural centre, Skobyanka, Sergiyev Posad.
Recorded April 21st, 2011 (CA-14 omni)
Published May 9th, 2011.
International Dawn Chorus Day is celebrated today, on the 1st Sunday of May. This event was introduced in 1984 with the help of The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country in the UK. Today, more and more people around the world are joining the company of ornithologists and sounds recordists going out for sound walks – some as early as at 4.30 am.
Russia isn’t on the list of the global events yet, with the closest being Poland. But these are my five kopecks, a three minutes recording of a stream running by the lake in the Ferma area of Sergiyev Posad surrounded by the birds’ voices.
A great array of 2011 dawn choruses recordings from the UK could be found at the Wildlife Sound Recording Society website, with some recording lasting over one hour! Opera and Mozilla Firexox users – if you’re having problems with the plugin used on the website, mozilla.com support forum has an answer.
Recorded April 22th, 2011 (SP-TFB-2)
Published May 1st, 2011.
Birds sing in a different way this time of the year – Mikhail form Novosibirsk was absolutely right when he spoke about this in his recent letter to oontz.ru. He suggested recording some of those songs, so the next day I grabbed the recorder and went outside to hear some happy chirping. Alas, it was one of those rather uncomfortable transitional spring days, windy and overcast. Then, I heard trees squeaking. What an impressive sound, really worth spending some time out in the cold.
There’s a pretty old tree by the railroad, not far from where I work. It has lots of cracks and hollows. Two Church Audio mics have been placed inside those hollows and this is what could be heard by someone who is used to live there, like a squirrel or marten, on a day like this.
Here’s a one-minute non-binaural extract, recorded inside the trees pictured above. The trees are slowly moving, the wind is shaking the tops.
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And a full recording for the bravest of the brave:
Thanks Mikhail. You too can leave a request.
Recorded March 11th, 2011 (CA-14 omni)
Published March 13th, 2011.
An abandoned scout camp, known in Russia as Pioneers camp, located by the village of Zhutchki (zhou-tch-’key) near Sergiyev Posad. We went there with the local Radonezheye TV crew to film the last leg of this bike race. ‘The site is protected by dogs’, we have been warned by an old shabby sign plate on the gates, but it is more likely it is now protected by all sorts of insects instead.
Recorded May 23rd, 2010 (SP-TFB-2)
Published February 13th, 2011.
