I like to think of natural silence as the canvas upon which other sounds are painted. (Dr. Timothy C Mullet)
Field Cricket Vs. two-spotted cricket
Reading Time: 2 minutes First reports for the Two-Spotted Cricket in the North East of Italy date back to 2003 (see PDF file below). The first two groups of singing notes refer to Field Cricket, the last two groups refer to Two-Spotted Cricket.As you can see, in the…
Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus “warm-up”!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last morning I was looking for some call or song of migratory birds that in this season migrate through our latitudes, when I was attracted, in audio headphones, by the buzz of an insect, a particularly “annoying” buzz. I directed my Sennheiser ME66 half…
Blackcap Song… and More!
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we take in apart the aspect of its song, the Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla, is a very crazy bird!When we hear an unusual bird song, before thinking of any kind of bird unknown to us, it’ll be better if we exclude the possibility that…
Juvenile MARSH WARBLER Subsong
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a subsong not so easy to record and particularly difficult to recognize: it is the song of a juvenile male of a Marsh Warbler, Acrocephalus palustris, about two months old, which already begins to emit its first singing phrases. In the last…
Analog Tape Recording Vs. Digital Recording
Reading Time: < 1 minute This recording clearly highlights the problem of the background noise caused by the magnetic tape hiss, completely solved with the advent of digital recording. From 2’07” begins the digital stereo recording performed using an Olympus LS5 and Parabola HiSound stereo with a disc of…
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