Mark Rushton - Field Recording on April 20, 2008 (Frogs)

Mark Rushton - April 20, 2008 Field Recording
Recorded and edited by Mark Rushton
(5:00), 192kb-encoded MP3, 6MB

This was recorded in my backyard the night of Sunday, April 20, 2008.

Last year, after I moved, I had planned to make a series of field recordings from my back yard, which is next to a series of wooded areas and in-town farm land. I put out a couple of recordings as free MP3s, mostly of crickets and katydids. Even though I recorded every couple of weeks until October, some of the recordings weren't good. Later in the year, I got a Zoom H2 (which I love...), but after the first frost the sounds were over.

Here it is in 2008 and I plan to do recording on a bi-weekly basis. Each one will be edited down to 5 minutes.

We had a bad winter. One of the coldest in decades and the 3rd snowiest in 140 years of record-keeping. February had the most snowfall ever for that month. It was a long time melting, and now we've had week after week of heavy rains.

What do you end up with? I think that sounds like frogs. And note my neighbor's sump pump hose draining just after the beginning.

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