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  • Soundscape presents relaxing and renewing ten minute field recordings captured in nature by Chad Crouch (using the recordist pseudonym Field Sound). Extended versions of these recordings can be found on all streaming services and Bandcamp under the artist name Field Sound. Go to: artist.link/fieldsound
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Soundscape presents relaxing and renewing ten minute field recordings captured in nature by Chad Crouch (using the recordist pseudonym Field Sound). Extended versions of these recordings can be found on all streaming services and Bandcamp under the artist name Field Sound. Go to: artist.link/fieldsound
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  • Virginia Lake

    Virginia Lake
    2025/01/15
    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chadcrouch.substack.com

    I love swans. I just do. My heart always skips a beat when I see them on a lake. I love their wild sounds, their warbled cries, whistles, and bugles. This recording was captured today, January 14th, 2025, and is two hours in length (for paid subscribers). It captures the sound of swans, geese and ducks.

    Here we have Virgina Lake. Few people know it by name. It’s not listed on most maps. It is the centerpiece of Wapato Access Greenway (or Wapato Park, for short) on Sauvie Island, just north of Portland, Oregon:

    In my experience the Tundra Swans settle in here best on foggy winter days. They don’t tolerate noisy humans on the shoreline. It’s hard to get close enough to them to get a photo with good detail.

    Juveniles have dusky brown heads and necks:

    Tundra swans look very similar to Trumpeter Swans, but are differentiated by their higher pitched bugle calls, and a yellow teardrop on their bill (often hard to spot in the field).

    Like almost all of my recordings, this has been edited to sound as pre-industrial as possible, without sacrificing fidelity.

    If you like the sound of swans as much as I do, here’s a recommended list of previous recordings:

    Oaks to Wetlands Trail Soundwalk

    Ridgefield Swans

    Swan Songs

    That’s all for now. Be well, friends.
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    3 分
  • Oaks Bottom Sound & Vision

    Oaks Bottom Sound & Vision
    2024/12/27
    Time now for another Sound & Vision; a photo essay with a soundtrack. This time we’re back at my old stomping grounds, Oaks Bottom, with a new mission: keep that shutter clicking! So feel free to click that play button up there and let’s find out what there is to see and hear today.What a morning! The sun is out after days of rain. It’s mild. And already I hear frogs. The first thing I notice is all the water. It’s pooling up around the path and in the trees.It’s still dripping from the snowberries.Light streams over the bluff. The tangled limbs of oaks are golden-hued. I hear a Kingfisher. That’s odd, the pond is a quarter mile away. I hear something else too. I look closer, and find a couple of squirrels in a spiral chase. Bits of moss fall from the tree as they scratch their way around and around. They are fast!But I’m done craning my neck. And I hear something else, very close, very quiet. The moss on this nurse log hosts a slow-moving streamlet, cascading drip by drip to the soil below. Let’s look at that licorice fern. And that tiny burst of red! I see these ruby leaves in several places. What are they?Further along the path I see Traveller’s Joy, also called Old Man’s Beard. It’s a noxious weed, but it’s pretty in the light.The moon is bright this morning.Hello moon. As I approach the pond, the wind picks up. The posts of the split rail fence host a moss that is stretching out for the light. The spring-fed creek seems to be flowing less than usual, which doesn’t make sense to me, given that the ground is saturated. Maybe it’s just this blanket of leaves that’s muffling its sound. As I lean over I see a stone that catches my eye. The bluff slope is full of river stones, top to bottom.I try and picture in my mind the scenario that forms the hole in this one: a little pebble grinding away a pothole under the spell of some current. So many stones around here were deposited in the Missoula Floods that happened at the end of the last ice age. Gravel bars hundreds of feet tall in some places. How far did you travel, little stone?Along the boardwalk I survey the beaver worksite. Coming along. The downed tree is in the water, now stripped of its bark at the waterline.Along the way I hear Black-capped Chickadees and Yellow-rumped Warblers. The chickadees start to sound more insistent. They add “dees” to their calls: chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee. That’s a warning. I hear ducks dash off. Then I hear the telltale squeal: the local apex predator, the Bald Eagle, is making the rounds. It glides by slowly above the trees, catching the upwelling air currents. Do you see it?At the observation deck I take in the panorama of the pond. The fluffy low-lying clouds look novel to me. Not typical for the season.And so does this squirrel munching on a samara, a little helicopter seed. Did you know they are a spring delicacy for us humans too? Peel and toss on your salad, says Curious by Nature.And while I’m out here let’s check on the resident Western Screech Owl. If you didn’t know where to look, you’d never see it. Even with someone telling you where to look, it can take a minute for your eyes and brain to register it. A master of disguise. Snoozing, as per usual.Back along the boardwalk, I spend a moment with this GBH. (That’s birder speak for Great Blue Heron.) It’s not at all bothered by me.Such a curious creature. So statuesque. Intense. Look at its feathers. Such a beautiful color. In fine art paint it’s Paynes Grey. Just mix a little Titanium White. Voila!Rounding the bend I see this distinguished elder. I frame it with some red leaves in the foreground. Ooh, artsy.A few paces down the path I see a little spy. So secretive, the Pied-billed Grebe. Always slinking away silently, often submerging like a submarine. It’s the smallest of the waterbirds here. I decide to scramble down to the shore, to see if I can get a better photo when it comes up for air. It’s smarter than that of course. It can track my movement on the shore, eyeing me from under water. I admire this female Mallard instead. None of these wildlife photos would generally make the cut, by the way. Poor lighting, and only the squirrel was at eye-level. (You always want your subject at eye level…) Soon enough the grebe comes up with a splash. It’s got a fish.It takes it a minute to subdue its catch.A GBH is relocating and it doesn’t sound happy about it. I rattle off some shots. Only one is in focus. Around the bend I see a photographer friend. He’s looking for a line to frame a shot he wants. I look for a bird and ask, “What do you see?”“The moon, next to the tower,” he says, and then I see what he’s after. We both take some photos. I say, “I’m having trouble focusing on the moon.”“Focus on the tower; it should be at infinity.” Solid advice. Now, if you’re not up to speed with that lingo, let me just take a second to explain, in the way that I chose to visualize this ...
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    9 分
  • Sauvie Island

    Sauvie Island
    2024/11/22

    Hello Friends. It’s been a while since I made a Soundscape podcast. I guess I wasn’t feeling the wind in my sails on this particular front.

    I found this recording and post in my “drafts” just now, so I’m winging it out there. Maybe it will jumpstart my workflow over here. It’s timely, given we’re still exploring Sauvie Island.

    Enjoy!



    This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chadcrouch.substack.com/subscribe
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    15 分
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