Short-eared owls with sage and grassland ambience.
Recorded with Rode NT1A microphones and a Sound Devices 702 digital recorder.
This recording was edited to reduce wind rumble and softly lift the distant ambience and subject birds.
This view of the recording location shows my microphone tripod in a slice of that vast soundscape.
The two photos below show a short-eared owl hunting
not far from the recording site.
This place is often as naturally quiet as it gets anywhere,
however on this particular visit
there seemed to be more noisy air traffic than usual.
Approaching from the west,
a view of Hart Mountain over Rabbit Hills .
A view to the east, taken near the recording location
- a distant Steens Mountain.
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John Hartog
Natural Soundscape Recording
Portland, Oregon USA
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