While the weather has been continuing to be mild this fall, I've enjoyed
sleeping with the windows open and listening to the night sounds of the
last crickets, and happily, in the past week, a pair of duetting barred
owls. But soon enough, the windows will be closed, and the sounds outside
will be
Hi Karen,
You can spend a lot for a high quality ambient microphone - from a few hundred
to a few thousand dollars. But if you have an old Android or iPhone that’s just
gathering dust, you could be listening tonight, while you research products and
ideas. Just put the phone outdoors on a charge
For night listening, my old iPhone outside the bedroom window does a good job,
as it’s quite sensitive (after all, this is the mic that Merlin uses). Last
night it treated me to crickets, a Barred Owl, and a coyote chorus. Feed the
output to a second device running Merlin and detect the night bi
