Spring time has arrived and with it so does the wildlife and more importantly it creates opportunities for field recordings. In the end of March and the beginning of April every year thousands of Cranes arrive at the end of a small lake in the middle of Sweden, lake Hornborga. The Cranes main purpose is to rest, eat and dance, before heading to their breeding grounds up north.
Tuesday the 28th of March I packed my car and started the 2 hour and 40 minutes drive to Lake Hornborga. Weather forecast: large amount of mist, 3 m/s winds and approx. 9-10° C and last nights Crane statistics 15800 Cranes.
Arrived at the lake at 09:00 and....Holy flying objects Batman!....Cranes everywhere and the sound was... prehistoric...yeah prehistoric is the closest word I can find too describe it. Let me put it this way the wait was worth it.
- Matching pair of RØDE NT5s connected to my H6 in ORTF configuration
- SONY PCM-D100 in AB configuration
- Sennheiser HD280
When reviewing the recordings back home my suspicions got confirmed. A lot of the recordings contained traffic noise and voices from bystanders. So a large amount of post processing and editing had to be done in order to make the recordings usable.
So what did I learn?
Next time recording at this location a shotgun microphone or even a parabolic dish microphone are needed to avoid unwanted sounds. I would most certainly arrive a day before and do the recordings at dawn to avoid noise from traffic. Next I might even rent of the bird-watcher hideouts to get really close. But sitting in a hideout with the dimensions of 2x2,5 m from 0430 until 2100 with 15000 Cranes outside screaming seems a bit extreme... or would it?
So if you have the chance do stop by Lake Hornborga its quite the experience.
Here are some useful links:
Lake Hornborga location:
https://goo.gl/maps/59H75aEMZ3k
Information and main viewing area:
https://goo.gl/maps/sjZfoGS9RjQ2
Crane Statistics:
http://web05.lansstyrelsen.se/transtat_O/transtat.asp
Lake Hornborga location:
https://goo.gl/maps/59H75aEMZ3k
Information and main viewing area:
https://goo.gl/maps/sjZfoGS9RjQ2
Crane Statistics:
http://web05.lansstyrelsen.se/transtat_O/transtat.asp
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