I am back for a bit. wow, will got #2 right.
You have to give him that as possitive id was not made Will also got
the same id.
I found a 6 woodpecker woods during migration that sounded great with
a distant road I have to deal with. And I missed a recording of a 4
trill Woodland edge, (junco, field, chipper, swamp). After hearing
that I am searching for a 6 trill edge.
Off again tommorrow to enjoy and help a couple college classes on a
field trip. Ducks, frogs, songbirds, and I hope at least one big non-
deer mammal (fox, bear or wolf). The mosquitos are just starting and
I find it hard to locate big mammals without the help of mosquitos
and flys telling me where to go.
Rich
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wrote:
> The first sound, Mystery1, is a cow and bull mating in the Swan
> Valley, Idaho in late May, 1998 while recording up on a ridge
> overlook, hence the natural reverberation. Even though we live in a
> rural area w/ lots of cows and bulls, I'd never heard that one
before
> in all my years in the field trying to avoid domestic critters. My
> wife, Kat, and I laughed for hours...
>
> The second Mystery sound is a pair of rare baby vultures, probably
> greater yellow-headed (Cathartes melambrotus) but maybe lesser
> yellow-headed (C. burrovianus). I vote for the former since the
> habitat is more likely. I didn't see the parents and didn't get a
> very good look at details of the babies because they were too high
> up, it was way too dark in the hollowed out hole, and, at 66,
having
> pulled myself up to the edge to see what was producing the sound,
I
> wasn't able to hang that long. But birds, they were. Having caught
a
> glimpse, I threw a couple of ECM55B lavs over the 12 ft. high ridge
> that was just within reach and down into the hole to get the sound.
> Neither vulture type has been studied much and I have not been able
> to find any decent recordings of the adults to compare. The babes,
> however, are on tape. The recording was made midday on our recent
> trip to Ecuador in January with ten-days recording along the Rio
Napo
> in what little remains of an old growth forest area.
>
> Unfortunately, no one guessed both sounds, so we'll up the winnings
> next time around.
>
> Bernie Krause
>
> Wild Sanctuary, Inc.
> P. O. Box 536
> Glen Ellen, California 95442-0536
> Tel: (707) 996-6677
> Fax: (707) 996-0280
> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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