For several years I have recorded the soundscape at the same spot when I visit a cottage in west Iceland. Every time I record there I get something different and interesting, all year around. Forestry has changed the birdlife a lot on this spot in the last 20 years. Birds like Redwings, Common Redpoll, Eurasian […]
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Dawn in Stafholtstungur, part 3
Posted in Náttúra, tagged Common Redpoll, Common Redshank, Common Snipe, Eurasian Wren, Europian Golden Plover, INA3, IRT cross, Lewitt LCT540s, Redwing, Rock Ptarmigan, Sound devices MixPre6, Stafholtstungur, Starling, Whimbrel (European), White Wagtail, Whooper Swan on 18.7.2021| Leave a Comment »
Mid May 2019 in Stafholtstungur
Posted in Náttúra, tagged Black Taled Godwit, Borgarfjörður, Common Redshank, Common Snipe, Common Starling, Golden Plover, Graylag Goose, Great Northern Diver, IRT cross, Lewitt LCT540s, Northern Wheatrxear, Read Throated Diver, Redwing, Rock Ptarmigan, Snow Bunting, Sound devices MixPre6, Stafholtstungur, Whimbrel, White Wagtail, Whooper Swan, Winter Wren on 11.3.2020| Leave a Comment »
After a dark winter with an awful weather nothing is as pleasant when migrant birds arrive to the country in the spring. Most birds arrive in April and May, and few species in Mars and June. So in mid May the air is loaded with birds song. What amazes me always is the fact that […]
Gust in Stafholtstungur.
Posted in Náttúra, tagged Calm, Gola, Gust, Lewitt LCT540s, Logn, NOS, Sound devices MixPre6, Stafholtstungur, Vindur, Wind on 20.6.2019| 2 Comments »
There are two things which are always possible to record almost everywhere, any time and all year around. That is traffic noise and all kinds of wind. Traffic noise is easy to record, but wind noise is more difficult. Wind is like an instrument or a symphony orchestra. But what makes it even more difficult […]
Dawn in Stafholtstungur
Posted in Náttúra, tagged Birds activity, Black Taled Godwit, Black-headed Gull, Common Redshank, Common Snipe, Common Starling, Golden Plover, Graylag Goose, Grágæs, Great Northern Diver, Hrossagaukur, Jaðrakan, Lóa, Mariuerla, Northern Wheatear, Redwing, Rjúpa, Rock Ptarmigan, Rode NT1a, Sennheiser MKH20, Skógarþröstur, Snjótitlingur, Snow Bunting, Sound devices MixPre6, Spói, Starri, Stelkur, Svanur, Whimbrel, White Wagtail, Whooper Swan, Winter Wren on 17.7.2017| 8 Comments »
This two midsummer recordings were made around four o´clock in the morning 15th of July 2017 nearby Arnarholt farm in Stafholtstungur, in west of Iceland. It is recorded on two stereo channels with two different microphones because usually every time I recorded in this place the recordings has been disturbed by traffic noise all night […]
Dawn in Stafholtstungur, part 2
Posted in Mannlíf, Náttúra, tagged AB40 recording, Arnarholt, Birds, Birds activity, Birdsong, Dawn, Dögun, Fuglar, Fuglasöngur, Iceland, Sennheiser MKH20, Sound Devices 744, Stafholtstungur on 6.11.2015| 1 Comment »
This recording is almost straight forward from the recording I posted about a year ago “Dawn in Stafholtstungur, part 1”. Now the traffic in the county increase slowly from previous recording, but all the time it is possible to listen to the birds activity in details around the recording place. This was recorded the 18th […]
Dawn in Stafholtstungur, part 1
Posted in Náttúra, tagged AB40 recording, Borgarfjörður, Fuglar, Quiet recording, Sennheiser MKH20, Sound Devices 744, Stafholtstunga on 9.11.2014| 5 Comments »
It is shocking how hard it is to find quiet places. Our planet is completely rumbling of humans machines. It does not matter where it is, in the ocean on land or in the sky. The situation just goes worse every year. But „quiet nature“ is not „nothing“. It can be a glorious soundscape with […]
Cyclone in gust
Posted in Náttúra, tagged Gust, NOS, Overnight recording, Rode NT1a, Sound Devices 744, Stafholtstungur, Test, Vindur, Wind on 9.10.2016| 4 Comments »
Wind is very often the recordist´s enemy. Especially if the rumbling noise of „hammering membrane“ is not acceptable. Some recordists may say this rumbling noise is just normal. Everyone will hear similar rumbling noise when they stay in wind. For me it sounds like „clipping distortion“. Wind protection is one of the most important thing […]