#SpectrogramSunday

Happy #SpectrogramSunday! Here is a recording of a flock of long-tailed tits from our enormous collection of wildlife CD-Rs. We're not sure on the collective noun for these birds... A twittering of long-tailed tits? An adorableness? Suggestions welcome.

Ever heard a manatee #mastication sound? This is a sound of a #manatee munching on some lettuce. It is very rhythmical and our current deep learning model has somewhat decent accuracy identifying files that contain loud and clear mastication sounds. #SpectrogramSunday

What is a spectrogram? Which musician hid this face in one of their tracks? Check out this blog from last September to find out! #SpectrogramSunday

PUFFINS! They're adorable, and they make bizarre sounds which are perfect for #SpectrogramSunday 😍 #Listen:

Automatic volume control (AVC) is a feature of some recorders that adjusts the microphone level according to level of noise picked up. Here we see that every time the bird in this recording calls, the level drops, leaving these holes in the background noise. #SpectrogramSunday

Our Autumn field meeting in Snettisham is fast approaching (27th-30th September). This is always a brilliant opportunity to record masses of waders and geese out on the Wash. Find booking forms on the members' section of our website #SpectrogramSunday

One of the wildlife collections we're digitising this year is this Neo-tropical birds collection on cassette by Andrew Whittaker. Lovely amazonian soundscapes for #SpectrogramSunday

It's all in the bass. Aesthetically pleasing dub reggae to serve your #SpectrogramSunday needs.

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay and #SpectrogramSunday. With the recent mild weather, frogs have been busy spawning all over the UK. Here's some common frogs (rana temporaria) calling with a surprise appearance from a buzzard (buteo buteo).

Who says you can’t post about #SpectrogramSunday on a Saturday? I never liked rules anyway

Taking a break from birds with this image of Serotine bat echolocation calls #SpectrogramSunday

Has anybody managed to get any good thunderstorm recordings recently? #SpectrogramSunday

#SpectrogramSunday When you want to get REALLY granular, you can zoom right in to specific frequency ranges of a spectrogram and pick all the minute harmonic details of a sound!

12:10pm at Lake Beresford on 3 April 2020 (a.k.a. first day of #stayathome order in #florida). #spectrogramsunday #soundscape #fieldrecording #listening #floridalockdown #birdingathome @OpenAcoustics @IwerStetson

Very uniform notes here from a Crested Barbet (trachyphonus vaillantii), this bird has im-peck-able timing! #SpectrogramSunday #birdpuns #TeamWildlife

The comb-like pattern of a churring Eurasian Nightjar #SpectrogramSunday

#SpectrogramSunday #poets #voices On the @PoetrySoundLIbrary you can listen to the voices of contemporary poets: from the fascinating North, Iceland and Sweden Magnús Sigurðsson (Iceland) and Karin Boye (Sweden). Their voice has the colours of the Northern lights...

Happy #SpectrogramSunday! Here's the echolocating calls of a common pipistrelle, brought down to human hearing range by a bat detector.

#SpectrogramSunday. Here's a twinkly little excerpt of live jazz piano...

Happy #SpectrogramSunday all! Matt Croteau has shared this brilliant image of two coyote packs howling to each other in central Massachusetts.

As the largest member of the corvid family, Ravens are astonishingly intelligent. They also have a surprisingly large vocabulary and are even capable of mimicry. Here's some of their characteristic throaty calls for #SpectrogramSunday