Dragonfly Wings
One of my first early morning sound hunting forays to a local pond taught me to pay attention to what is sometimes hard to see. I set up my microphone in a parabolic dish to record the sounds of the pond animals as they started their day. Once I got everything hooked up & turned on I heard a buzzing in my headphones. Thinking that I might have a short in my cables, or a malfunctioning microphone, I started checking each of my connections and swapping microphones. I turned the dish around to look at the microphone & the buzzing stopped. When I turned the dish back toward the pond the buzzing started again… I did this a couple of times until I thought to look through the clear dish to see what the microphone was pointing at: about 10 feet away was a hovering dragonfly. The buzzing sound turned out to be the wings!
Recorder: Sony PCM-D50, Mic: Sennheiser ME66 & Sony parabolic dish, Date: 08/30/2008