Nature Recordists Campout

The Midwest Nature Recordists Campout took place in the Crex Meadows Wildlife Area, “30,000 acres of wetlands, brush prairies and forests was bustling with nesting and migratory birds, deer, foxes and wolves” (photographs © Steve Russell).

Audio recordists gather for one weekend each May at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve in southwestern Wisconsin, and create a 24hr timeline of the avian action. Check David Michael’s “Upper North Fork Flowage (composite)” and these “Paul Dickinson: Tracks.” Curt Olson of Track Seventeen recorded the recordists at play:

“2010 Midwest Nature Recordists Campout at Crex Meadows” (9:30 mp3):

(Curt also made HV and Weekend America a sound-portrait of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon.)