Summary

birdradio is a live audio stream capturing the sound of the environment near our house in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

We live on about three partially-wooded acres of land on the former site of a farm. There is a field in front of the house, then some trees (we are trying to facilitate reforestation), then a road. Behind the house are trees and then a small housing development. To one side of the house we have a six acre field, originally part of this lot, that was donated to the town as conservation land by a previous owner. Sounds: weather, vegetation and creatures (squirrels, turkeys, owls and other birds, coyotes, fisher cats etc.), the sound of occasional traffic on our road and a nearby state highway, and also the sounds from our furnace and water heater.

birdradio is located about 100 feet from our house.

Technical

Hardware

birdradio consists of a Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B) with a Pisound board (modified to provide PIP) and a Wildtronic Mini Stereo PIP microphone. The system is connected to a router inside my house by Ethernet and powered by PoE using a PoE injector and splitter.

Software

The system runs BUTT to capture audio and Icecast to serve up a stream. The stream runs at 48000 Hz..

How to Listen

You can listen to birdradio by connecting to https://birdradio.ddns.net/birdradio.

birdradio is also part of the Locus Solus Soundmap project. In the list of streams, look for PETERBOROUGH.