Eclipse and nature 150320_0536.ogg

Nature recorded near farm in Holland during an 85% eclipse in the Netherlands.

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Start of a partial solar eclipse on the beginning of the recording 9.32 am.
Max eclipse (sun covered 84.2%) after 1.05 hour 10.37 am
End eclipse 28 min after end of the recording 11.48 am.
Total duration eclipse 2.18 min.

Sorry that I did stop the recording to early. It was a mistake of me. Even that I hope you get an impression of what happened with nature during this eclipse.

What you hear;
In front of me a small farm with cows and stable in front on 30m. Around me the fields. Left two farmers with tractors harrowing.

17.00 – farmer opens the stable and let the cows inside. Door remains open.

21.00 – (44 minute before eclipse) starlings (twittering birds) become very active, fly around in large group and land in the trees around the farm like the do during sunset. A lot of crows calling. Lapwings in the field and other small bird active. Sometime a woodpecker in the distance.

36.35 – (28 minutes before eclipse) all the starlings land in the trees again and make a lot of noise. Other birds including the cock start to sing loud also.

53.00 – (12 minutes before eclipse) most of the birds become quiet.

66.00 – (moment zero of the eclipse, some sparrows audible for a minute.

72.00 – (6 minutes after eclipse) first active and more and more join in slowly.

84.00 – (20 minutes after eclipse) cow become restless and want to get out, starlings start singing in the distance.

93.00 – (29 minutes after eclipse and normal daylight again) cows are driven outwards

Not any special moment that can be called as dawn-chorus. I was expecting that, but I was wrong. Maybe dawn-chorus starts usualy one hour before sunrise. Is that an explanation???? One thing Is for sure; in the beginning of the eclipse there were more birds audible than after 50 minutes after the maximum eclipse. Next time, in 2048 I will try again. ;-)

More on this field/polder though the year

Weather: temp 4c, cloudy fog, wind N 1-2bft,

Location: Grobbendonksekooiweg, Gement polder, Vught, Van Gogh Nationaal Park, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (Holland), Europe. Google Maps 51° 40' 20.00" N  5° 16' 11.00" E (see geotag) 51.67222 5.26972

Date/time: March 20th 2015, 09.30-11.30 am

Gear chain: Rode NT4 XY (fore sides left and right) and a Rode NTG-1 shotgun (for mid-signal) in Rode Blimp > Sound Devices 302 (coder for MS-recording >Tascam dr-100 Mk2.
This strange MS-setup is developed by me to make it possible to make wide stereo recordings on a distance.
This is a MS (mid-side)-recording is encoded in STEREO Left-Right, so you can encode it to MONO without losing quality of sound.

This is a modern high quality -q10 (1500kbps) OGG Vobis compression file (48000Hz/16bit). The quality is almost as good as the 48/24-WAV original file. You can easily use this file in HD-film and HIFI music-tracks. The sound-quality is, after this compression technique is still very high. The file size reduction is about 75% of the 2304kbps WAV-track

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