rows ?? -- in the garden
At 03:00 PM 12/26/2003, Dominique wrote:
>Hi Doug,
>
>You are the second listener to make the same comment about the recording
>!
>House Sparrows where my first impression as well, when I recorded them.
>I could not see them, only hear them. But it was obviously a band of
>several dozens. However, to my knowledge, such bands of House Sparrows
>are not common in our region anymore (I have not seen one for at least
>10 years !) So I just left the recording aside for a while...
>
>Last Sunday, as the band was there (it had been on most days for a
>while), I was able to see some of them take off. The birds I saw where
>Starlings. That changed my mind about what I had recorded a week before,
>and I assumed they were Starlings... But a member of a local ornithology
>group made the same comment you made after listening to the recording.
>
>So, I wonder if I have been confused by the presence of 2 flocks -
>perhaps on the same days, perhaps on consecutive days. One of the 2
>flocks having been there for many days... However, snow came down a few
>days ago, and the birds seem to have been either less noisy or absent.
>The snow is now gone, temperature is rising again, and I am hoping they
>will be back over the weekend, so that I can investigate this further.
I've posted an example of a band of Passer domesticus from Arizona, so you=
can compare. It's at http://www.naturesongs.com/hospdd3,mp3
Doug
Doug Von Gausig
Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
Moderator
Nature Recordists e-mail group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists
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