Wednesday 21 August 2013

Westhay Moor Drainage Ditch

This is a recording made last summer on August 28th that I found whilst clearing some old memory cards.



Westhay Moor is an area of peat wetlands south of the Mendips which I drove to one afternoon because it looked interesting on my map. I stopped on one of the long straight roads at a small bridge and lowered both hydrophones into the water.



The water was full of plant life and fairly stagnant. When the sun came out from behind the clouds at the 2 minute mark, the tempo increases which leads me to believe it is mostly gases being released from decaying vegetation that can be heard.