Hi Rich
I finally got around to listening to the grouse clip....and I can say YES,
this sound (and lot of other strange ones) are frequently heard when the
birds are active on leks...at least in this area of northeastern BC. I also
have some 200 yard recordings of leks but they aren't nearly as good as
yours! Cursed wind!
Mark Phinney
on 3/17/04 1:22 PM, Rich Peet at wrote:
> Now that I have my leks ploted, I am ready to try for close audio.
> The small linked file (68kb) was recorded at over 200 yards with the
> wind in the wrong direction.
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> Is this a common sound for sharp-tails?
> I guess it is pre-courtship where they seem to say "Got to Whip it".
> It just was not the sound I was expecting to hear. The little
> perverts.
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> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/sharptailed.mp3
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> Lost a hard drive last year as well as the Hemi plans. I will have to
> find the printed version in the files. Still looking.
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> Rich
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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