LIVE FIELD JOURNAL
Wimberley Wildlife
A field journal from our listening station in the woods.
The East Texas woods
Listening continuously · Updated throughout the day
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Voices shaping this period
Weather through the period
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Morning Chorus
The first voices and changing sounds of dawn.
Today in East Texas
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Dawn Soundscape
Hear the morning unfold
A few defining moments from today’s chorus, gathered from the listening station.
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Today’s Chorus Timeline
The woods, waking minute by minute
Each mark represents an active minute; larger marks mean more calls were detected. Select a species name to hear that species as a playlist, or explore the activity graph below for detections per minute.
Chorus at a Glance
The dawn chorus
First Voices Today
Early risers
Weather During the Chorus
At peak chorus
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Full-Day Soundscape
Follow the voices of the woods as they gather, fade, and return across twenty-four hours.
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Recently Heard
The latest sounds noticed at the station.
Recently Heard
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Weather Now
At the listening station.
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About the Listening Station
From the edge of the East Texas woods, a small listening station records the changing voices of birds, frogs, insects, and other wildlife throughout the day.
The project began as a way to document the living landscape surrounding Wimberley Puzzle Company and to turn everyday observations into an ongoing field journal.
How it works
Recordings are gathered outdoors and paired with weather context, creating a time-stamped record of the changing soundscape.
An outdoor microphone listens continuously. Automated acoustic analysis suggests likely species, while recordings, detections, and weather notes become part of the live field journal.
The Listening Station, Live
How sound becomes a field journal—and how each part of the station is working now.
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An outdoor microphone listens continuously to the woods.
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BirdNET suggests likely species from the sound.
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Weather, daylight, and time help place each sound in context.
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Detections, audio, and observations become the public field journal.
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Technical details
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