Wild Burros of Picacho (with Coyote Finale) Wild Burros sound off at night along the shores of Lake Taylor in Picacho State Recreation Area north of Yuma, Arizona (silent intervals between outbursts have been drastically reduced). At the very end, a pair of Coyotes give ecstatic howls and tremolo calls just before dawn. Listen also for muskrats peeping (near the beginning), the hoots of distant Great Horned Owls, the occasional staccato kick calls of Ridgway’s Rails, and the soft chuckling notes of Least Bittern. Note also abundant splashes throughout that I believe were caused by fish ..read more

Drip after a rainy night, with Wood Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Allard’s Ground Cricket, and distant Barred Owl and Mourning Dove. July 28, 2018 at around 7am. Recording and photograph © Lang Elliott. NOTE: Please wear headphones for a fully immersive 3D listening experience. Note: The recording featured above is a “3D binaural soundscape”. Please wear headphones for a profound listening experience that will make you think you’re actually out there, immersed in the natural world! I always strive to keep my ears well-tuned, in order to perceive uplifting soundscapes that might easily escape n ..read more

Coyote Reverberations AT DUSK on July 11 of this year, I visited Cornell University’s Arnot Teaching and Research Forest, 4200 acres of forest and shrubby clearings, with grassy meadows blanketing a high ridge. Thankfully, the area is open to the public and the gates remain open at night, at least for now. Accompanied by fellow adventurer Beth Bannister, I drove up a steep road to the meadows and then looped around, parked and walked to a remote forested spot, where we placed a binaural soundscape microphone in hopes of capturing something interesting through the night hours. Arnot Forest ..read more

Last week, I went on a brief trip to the Adirondack Mountains with my recording buddy Beth Bannister. While our primary purpose was to visit a friend who is ill, we also planned to camp in several remote wild areas, in hopes of capturing engaging soundscapes. Late summer is a quiet time in the north woods, so our expectations were low. Over the course of our trip, we camped at three different locations, setting out multiple microphones at dusk and then letting them run through the night. For the most part, the results were disappointing, with very little happening at night (other than cricke ..read more

Catbird Night Song Reborn Catbird silhouetted against the full moon – art representation by Lang Elliott The night unfolds, the bullfrogs boom Bellows, croaks, bestir the pond Then midnight strikes, and none too soon The catbird clears his wakened throat And pipes a chant that quells the gloom And thrills the shadows of the moon … Catbird Night Song – The Birth I well remember that night, even though it was 30 years ago. It was the 29th of May, 1991, here in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. At dusk, with a full moon rising, I drove to nearby Connecticut Hill Wildlife Management Area and ..read more

Hi All! I think you will enjoy this video featuring a Northern Mockingbird, singing from its perch in an apple tree in late June. I captured the footage about a year ago in nearby Finger Lakes National Forest (near Trumansburg, NY), and I’ve just gotten around to editing and publishing it to Vimeo. I was in charge of the videotaping and my assistant Beth Bannister did the sound recording. We’re quite happy with the result and I look forward to editing additional footage obtained during the same outing. Finger Lakes National Forest Finger Lakes National Forest 2499-2265 Wilkens Rd, Lodi ..read more

Plops and splats of water dripping from a limestone bluff overhang along a tributary of the Sabinal River in Lost Maples State Natural Area in the Hill Country of Texas. Listen also for the musical trills of Eastern Screech-Owls. April 19, 2021 at around 11pm. Recording and photograph © Lang Elliott. Note: The recording featured above is a “3D binaural soundscape”. Please wear headphones for a profound listening experience that will make you think you’re actually out there, immersed in the natural world! OOne of my favorite locations for nature recording is Lost Maples State Natural Are ..read more

Recording features wild turkeys at dawn, calling from their roost in a cottonwood tree. 1 May 2021. Aravaipa Canyon not far from Klondyke, Arizona. Recording and accompanying art representation © Lang Elliott. Note: The recording featured above is a “3D binaural soundscape”. Please wear headphones for a profound listening experience that will make you think you’re actually out there, immersed in the natural world! Wild Turkeys are extremely wary of humans and are usually very difficult to record, except in areas where they are not hunted and have not developed a fear of humans. Such is t ..read more

Wind, Ravens and Reeds, recorded at dawn in Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas. 17 March 2021. Recording and photo © Lang Elliott. Tap photo to view full size. Note: The recording featured above is a “3D binaural soundscape”. Please wear headphones for a profound listening experience that will make you think you’re actually out there, immersed in the natural world! During two recent trips to Big Bend National Park in southwestern Texas (one in mid-March and the other in mid-April), the drought was palpable. Dawn choruses seemed suppressed in comparison to what I experience ..read more

Note: The recordings featured here are “3D binaural soundscapes”. Please wear headphones for a profound listening experience that will make you think you’re actually out there, immersed in the natural world! While I’ve recorded in wild areas across North America for over 30 years, there is one species I’ve had trouble documenting … the Gray Wolf. I thought I had captured a fairly nice recording of a lone individual howling in the White Mountains of Arizona, but to my dismay it turned out to be a Coyote. Aarrgghh! Desiring to finally capture definitive wolf howls, I decided to look into t ..read more