It's mid-morning at the end of May, 2025. Along the fast-flowing Moose Creek in the Jumpingpound Demonstration Day Use Area the Lincon's Sparrows and White-throated Sparrows sing loudly while the Ruby-crowned Kinglets pass through. As time passes, Pine Siskin, American Robins, and even a few Golden-crowned Kinglets make their way through.

Recorded May 31, 2025 by Rob Porter.

It's 4°C (39 °F) and 5:40am on June 5, 2024 and the American Robins and a Northern Cardinal start off the morning. As time progresses, a number of bird species add their voices: Winter Wren, Dark-eyed Junco, Blackburnian Warbler, Ovenbird, Blue Jay, and towards the end of our soundscape, the Tufted Titmouse.

The trees are damp with an overnight rain, and with each gust of wind "rain" falls from the trees to the ground. Red-eyed Vireos, Eastern Wood-Pewees, and Ovenbirds sing while Blue Jays call and a quiet and mysterious Eastern Screech-Owl makes rare daytime vocalizations.

Recorded on a Zoom F3 field recorder with a matched pair of SO.1 microphones at Ruigrok Tract, Haldimand County, Ontario on May 26, 2024.

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Migration is in full swing along the shores of Lake Erie. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Eastern Towhee, Blue-winged Warbler, Northern Cardinal are just a few species heard singing. A surprise guest appearance of a Caronlina Wren making a good Kentucky Warbler impression in song.

Recorded with a Zoom H1essential and two AGPTek Omnidirectional microphones.

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This soundscape features spring peepers, wood frogs, with some cameos from Pine Siskin and Canada Goose, as well as lots of wind and snow.

Recorded on March 17, 2024 in Beverly Swamp, Flamborough, Ontario using the Zoom F3 and SO.1 Omni Mics.

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Along the trail to Hector Falls I left a recorder for about half a hour. Red-eyed vireos dominate, with the occasional Black-throated Green Warbler, White-breasted Nuthatch, and a number of other songbird species.

Recorded on July 15, 2022 with a Zoom F1 recorder with an XYH-6 microphone at Hector Falls Trail in Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania, USA.

You can listen to more from this location during the first few episodes of the Songbirding podcast season 5.

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It's mid-May and most breeding bird species have arrived, and a few are still migrating through. Red-eyed Vireos, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Ovenbird, and more can be heard throughout this soundscape.

This was recorded using my new SO.1 Sonorous Objects omnidirectional pair of microphones.

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Each year I attempt to put together a new episode for the Halloween season, but as you might be aware, finding owls is in itself a time consuming effort, let alone recording sounds of them.

While I didn’t succeed in capturing much this year, I did think of what I think should be a fun fill-in. This episode will be entirely soundscapes of birds, insects, frogs, and coyotes singing in the night. It will be a standalone episode, in case you’d like to play it on a loop for a haunted house, or whatever purpose you might have in mind.

This will be on both the Songbirding and Songscapes podcast feeds.

Species include: Eastern Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl, Eastern Whippoorwill, Eastern Coyote, Common True Katydid, Chorus Frog, and more.

Locations of recording were throughout southern Ontario, and in Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania.

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During a midwinter day at Lake Niapenco, the ice and rocks make interesting sounds as the temperature rises through the day. 

Read more about this phenomena here: https://www.sciencerendezvous.ca/activities/2020/12/30/hear-ice-sing/

An early morning soundscape recorded during the migration in May of 2021, at Fifty Point Conservation Area, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.