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This is how I got started with it, it makes review so much faster and easier. It's truly enjoyable. https://sasquatchbioacoustic.blogspot.com/2011/10/using-audacity-spectrograms-to-review.html I've of course tailored it for my uses over time. For instance, I think I zoom in more than he suggests, necessary to catch more distant or soft sounds. I record overnight, approximately 10 pm to 6 am. This works well for local drops and if I can find likely areas when traveling. Sometimes I will leave a device for multiple days if I need to. I feel that night recording rules out some other wildlife and potential human sounds, and it's when hairy folks are more active. Of course, depending on the area, day time may be as productive. One has to listen to a lot of stuff, there's no way around it. You'll have to learn your areas' typical birds, canids, traffic, etc. Now I can scan files pretty quickly and dismiss a lot, saving just shorter clips. I include approximate time in the metadata area on those. I save by date and possible sound, like whoop or bang, etc. when I can. This thread and Redbone are helpful, too. https://bigfootforums.com/topic/57428-a-place-to-share-audio-files/ Back to topic, cool research video!

Here is the new class B I mentioned in my last post: https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=66224 I took a drive out today to give it a look. As suspected the report had details off a bit, if the site I found was actually correct. The road mentioned in the report was gated about 1/4 to 1/2 mile in and signed "smile, you're on camera" typical of private woodlots here, but scouting around I found this: And from May '19, with the sale sign still up: Fits the witness' description fairly well. I was hoping he'd be out there plugging away at something or other but no luck. I wouldn't call it desolate, neighbors, main roads and traffic noise but if one got back in it might seem so. Still, it's decent habitat and is near a sizeable tract of NWR, which is where I went for a jaunt after. Bushwhacked a ways into hemlock/pine/birch forest to where it became a boggy/mossy thicket. Back out to follow up dead end old logging roads and powerline access ways til dark then stopped back by the aforementioned gated road for a few wood knocks, which I never do but it seemed suiting here--no response. Saw/heard 1 red squirrel--another dead quiet afternoon in the woods.

Driftless, a great researcher, is on to something.

Very much obliged!

Are you using spectrograms? I can offer some tips from lots of recording, and no I haven't listened to all of them.

It is difficult to share any sort of information between groups, unfortunately. We get constant questions from people with what I consider casual interest in the subject concerning the exact locations that we investigate. I usually give the state as an answer and leave it at that. Most of them will never actually go out into the woods, but enough might that it could pollute the area. If most people's idea of Bigfoot research didn't mainly consist of calls and wood knocks, then it might be different. I have toyed with the idea of trying to establish a network of independent researchers in my region...to share information and ideas. The South doesn't get the same attention as the Pacific Northwest, but there seems to be lots of activity in the mountains from West Virginia on down. However, most of the people who are actually involved in field research are few and far between, as well as seem to already be BFRO members. There is a lot of interest in the area, but most people limit their actual Bigfoot related activities to collecting Bigfoot knickknacks and posting unintelligible comments on Facebook Bigfoot groups. As far as the recording goes, we have been setting up a Zoom H4N Pro in different areas and then leaving it running while we look around. The downside is that we are falling further and further behind on audio review. It's so time consuming.

I think you're gonna be in a great spot. There is not much civilazation around there...

Starting this coming Saturday I'll spend about 5 straight days in the woods of Roane County, WV with a buck, doe and black bear stamp and my .30-06. Camp has no electricity (gas only) and we aren't planning to come out for our time there unless we all tag out. There's three of us on 300 acres and I was told to buy the bear tag because I'm almost certain to see a black bear on the property. Ok, @gigantor and @BobbyO....hit me with the sighting maps which will keep me on my toes the entire time I'm in the woods (even moreso than if I was just hunting whitetails). Spencer is the closest town with a Walmart and centered on the map below.

My buddy Robert has uploaded the 2 drone flights from last Sunday's trip up the Anderson and East Anderson Rivers. I admire his skill and endurance in piloting these flights, as the wind was blowing quite strongly, and the temperature was -2C. My face and hands were numb by the time he landed each time. In the first video, you'll notice the difference in speed, into the wind outbound, and with the wind returning.

We had one of those butterflies visit us at our lunch stop in the BC Coast Mtns on Sunday. I was surprised to see it at about 3500 ft above the valley floor, where the nights have been freezing for the last week or so. Sotol doesn't grow here, but there have been sightings of Sasquatch earing the roots of cat tails/bullrushes in the spring.

The butterfly was alive and well! The only other critters that I notice eating the Sotol are the wild hogs, but it is quite obvious when they do it, as they root around and tear up the plant and area. Plus they are not taking them with them to be consumed later and at a different location.

More Sotol snacks....they seem to love this stuff, the left-overs always look the same and certainly follow a predictable pattern.

Nice cool weather, equals some longer hikes.....here's a pic of a BF trail & trackway with at least 2 sizes, overlapping and double-prints too, plus a fresh Sotol snack, the seasons over for those now. We've had some colder nights, and the last pic is a out of place 'woods match'.