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 charger, auto-lock off, turn on its mic, and cable or bluetooth the output to whatever listening system you may have indoors.
-Geo > On Oct 22, 2022, at 12:09 PM, Karen Edelstein <k...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > > 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 lost > to me. I'm wondering whether there might be some way to run a microphone from > outside the window into a device like an old Android phone that I can > Bluetooth to a speaker, and then be able to listen to the wonder of nature > while I'm cozy in my warm bed. > > Do any of you audio-savvy folks have some suggestions about how this might > work? > > Best, > > Karen > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
