Sounds in the Woods

Red maple stand near a wetland, spring peepers start at 20:42 Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Spring bird activity in a maple forest Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Windy day in an oak stand. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Windy day in a freshly burned oak stand (still smelled like fire). Mixed audio mono due to the right microphone peaking due to the wind. Constant distant traffic due to proximity to Interstate 80/90. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Under eastern red cedar surrounded by oaks on a windy day. Constant distant traffic due to proximity to Interstate 80/90. Crows, bluejays, and rustling oak leaves throughout. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

White noise from the spillway of a historic grist mill. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Return to Arrowhead Preserves (Ep. 4). Planted wetland forest adjacent to open prairie and emergent wetlands on a warm, windy December day. Rain started at about 15:30 and an active bluejay in the last 2 minutes. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Return to Glacial Esker Nature Preserve (Ep. 103), but a different area. Oak, maple, and hackberry forest adjacent to Bowen Lake with wet snow. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Oak-hickory stand on a breezy day with a few squirrels after an unplanned 3 month hiatus. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Marsh and upland refuge on the site of a former Navy seaplane base and former NIKE missile base. Adjacent to a municipal airport, which resulted in a fair bit of airplane take-off noise. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Unedited version of Ep. 135. Warning: wind clipping audio throughout (especially in the left ear). Return to Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area (Ep. 66). Windy day in an oak and hickory stand adjacent to a mill pond. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Return to Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area (Ep. 66). Windy day in an oak and hickory stand adjacent to a mill pond. Short episode due to trimming out clipping from the wind. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Return to Acres Along the Wabash (Ep. 34). Breezy day in an oak, hickory, and maple stand one the ridge above the Wabash River. A fly buzzes by at 7:09. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Lots of birds active in a sparse and open black walnut stand along Loon Lake. Chipmunk scurrying at 9:50. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Return to Spring Lake Woods & Bog (original Ep. 35). Soft oak-hickory forest with April showers. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Spring birds, squirrels, and rain active in a disturbed hardwood forest. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Low hardwood forest along Sandstone Creek. Traffic noise as the property is bisected by a road. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod (License)

Return to Fogwell Forest Nature Preserve (original Ep. 23). Oak and maple stand in a classic flatwoods. I would normally remove more traffic noise, but the spring birds were active. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Calm water and early spring birds by the lake. Sand hill cranes at 50:28. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Mixed hardwood forest with snow and ice falling from the trees. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

A still winter day in a yellow-poplar forest. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Snow melting off of shrubs in a mixed oak forest with highway noise. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

A snowy mixed hardwood forest with plenty of highway noise. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Still and quiet day in a hardwood forest. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Oak forest with falling acorns and vocal crows. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Old growth forest with large tulip-poplar and white pine within the Hoosier National Forest. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Another windy fall day in an oak-hickory forest. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Windy fall day in a oak forest. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Early fall day in a sugar maple forested neighborhood park. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Small protected wetland surrounded by ironweed and American senna. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

A small oak-hickory forest. Short episode due to local construction noise. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Oak-hickory forest. The same location as Episode 5. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Cicadas and katydids in a young oak plantation. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Pine plantation with owls, cicadas, and wind. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Hardwood forest with several waterfalls. Cicadas were not loud enough to mask DNR lawn mower. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Mixed hardwood forest with lots of birds. Intro: Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3440-bittersweet License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Busy episode with leopard frogs, blue jays, active chipmunks chirping and running around the microphone, creaky trees, and birds i don't know in an elm-maple flatwoods.

Windy day in a hickory stand adjacent to Snakey Point Marsh with occasional Canada geese.

Very still and quiet upland oak forest.

Bottomland hardwood forest adjacent to the Wabash River.

Small stand adjacent to Hovey Lake with vocal birds. Barred owl at 11:52.

Ridge-ravine hardwood forest with frogs in the distance.

Early spring in an oak forest adjacent to the campground.

Winter wind through a constructed butterfly habitat field on the forest edge. Sandhill cranes starting at 18:23.

Winter oak-hickory forest on a ridge. I left in more traffic noise than normal because the red-bellied woodpeckers were vocal.

Very windy willow and cottonwood stand on the edge of a waterfowl habitat restoration area.

Very windy day in an oak-hickory forest with squeaky creaky trees.

The loudest episode. The Lower Fossil Beds with the constant roar of the Upper Tainter Gates.

Rich beech-maple stand in a mixed hardwood forest (with oaks and hickories) and a thick midstory of paw paw. I left in some traffic noise because that's when the critters were active.

DECEMBER - Active birds as it was a warm, sunny day. An acorn falls from high and lands near the recorder (24:13). For 2021, I recorded at the same location monthly. It is in an oak-maple forest at the base of an ancient sand dune. This is the same park from Episode 1.

Sugar maple stand. Some normal fall activity.