{"id":2085,"date":"2011-04-25T18:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2011-04-25T18:56:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T01:56:01","slug":"desert-frogsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/desert-frogsong\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Frogsong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">[One in a <a title=\"Listen to more sounds from Joshua Tree National Park and Anza Borrego State Park\" href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?s=desert+joshua+tree\" target=\"_blank\">series of posts<\/a> from my spring 2011 trip to the southern California desert.]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anza Borrego Desert State Park is the second largest state park in the lower 48 United States. It&#8217;s dry, as its name implies, but it&#8217;s very seismically active and has many natural hot springs and oases scattered throughout the park, so water is less scarce than you&#8217;d think.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, it shocked me almost beyond belief how filled some of these hot seeps were with frogs, and how loud they got at night. Sadly, I didn&#8217;t get any pictures of these tiny thumb-sized frogs, puffing out their chins to impress their ladyfriends, but I watched them for an hour with my headlamp while I recorded them from several perspectives. <span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>(Tip: Get a headlamp with a red LED or filter. This goes a long way in preserving your night vision while still illuminating nearby things like field recorder controls, and tends to spook animals less.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is one long take from this session. It starts with distant frogs, one slow croaker nearby, and then gets really hopping (ugh, sorry, I had to do it) around 1 minute in. Then, after two and a half minutes, it dies down as quickly as it started.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/13996065&#8243; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=ee0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">[Sony PCM-D50 recorder, capsules at 120\u00c2\u00b0]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[One in a series of posts from my spring 2011 trip to the southern California desert.] Anza Borrego Desert State Park is the second largest state park in the lower 48 United States. It&#8217;s dry, as its name implies, but it&#8217;s very seismically active and has many natural hot springs and oases scattered throughout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,134],"tags":[279,9,10,283,281,14,324,321,18,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}