Air Date: Week of May 2, 2025

Disney World in Florida harbors some unexpected oases. (Photo: Tech. Sgt. Andrew Burdette, Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

We asked you, our listeners, to submit snippets of the sounds around you. Here are a couple more of your submissions.

Transcript

BELTRAN: Here at Living on Earth amongst our staff we’ve been enjoying the audio you, our listeners, have been sending in. And we wanted to remind you that summer brings the perfect opportunities to record and share your sounds!

DOERING: That’s right, Paloma! Whether you’re planning your next trip to a National Park, a campground or the beach, you can share a glimpse of that experience with us through sound! Like this recording Catherine Crow captured from a treehouse villa at Disney World in Florida.

[SOUND FROM TREEHOUSE]

DOERING: Catherine said “you wouldn’t know you were in the middle of theme park central”!

BELTRAN: Wow! Or this mockingbird song by Craig Claudin taped while he and his wife were visiting family in Phoenix, Arizona.

[MOCKINGBIRD CALLS]

BELTRAN: Craig said this was a gracious and unexpected gift from a natural composer.

DOERING: Well, I couldn’t agree more with Craig. To capture sound you can use any sound recording app on your phone, like Voice Memos or Voice Recorder. And for the best audio quality make sure to stand still for at least two minutes without fidgeting or talking. But we do want to hear from you!

BELTRAN: Yes we do! So be sure to speak clearly and let us know where you are, what you’re hearing and what inspired you to record the moment. Then you can email the file to comments@loe.org, and we might just use your audio postcard on the air! That’s comments at loe dot org.

 

Links

How to make a sound recording on an iPhone

How to make a sound recording on an Android