No. Not in our back yard. But we've got a dipper in the White House.
Bernie
>OK lads, I think this is amazing and I looked at him for bloody ages, I ha=
d
>a Dipper in my backyard, I have no water or running stream except for mayb=
e
>a creek about =BD a mile away, we have just had a tremendous amount of sno=
w,
>he was foraging around the ground eating some of the seed that I chuck out=
,
>has anyone else ever had a dipper in the garden in this manner? Not counti=
ng
>you lot that have a river running through your property!!!
>I have only ever seen them in environments accustomed to their surrounding=
s!
>Unfortunately he was very quiet and I couldn=92t get a sound out of the
>blighter!
>
>Martyn
>
>
>Martyn Stewart
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>From: Wild Sanctuary
>Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:33 AM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Critique time for new web site
>
>OK. I'll check this out. Right now, there a pair of great horned owls
>right outside my lab and I gonna have a conversation with them.
>
>BK
>
>>From: Wild Sanctuary <>
>>>
>>> Excellent points, Walt. And I agree with all of them. It took me
>>> nearly 15 minutes to download one of our 90 second samples when I was
>>> checking things out and that's way too long. I'm gonna contact our
>>> web manager and see what we can do about this. Although I think the
>>> MP3s are now at their lowest setting we have (128kbps) but I'm not
>>> sure of that.
>>>
>>> Lemme see what I can do (or not).
>>
>>I don't know for your material, but I'm using settings way lower on some
>>ID calls. I just checked one and it's 40kbps vbr, yet sounds just fine.
>>Of course for those clips I use mono. That particular sample (bullfrog)
>>took me 30 seconds to download on a not particularly good modem
>>connection. It's about 30 seconds in length and 180k. If it were stereo
>>it would have to be up somewhere around 80kbps or so.
>>
>>It's going to be hard to do this through a web manager. They won't know
>>exactly how the clip should sound. When I did mine I kept coming back to
>>them after several days away to keep my ear from getting trained. Just
>>like other kinds of sound editing. I played around for a couple months
>>before putting them up.
>>
>>Note the clips I have listened to sound just fine. You could probably
>>shorten the length a bit on some, 90 seconds is a long time for a sample.
>>
>>Walt
>>
>>
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