Excuse my total ignorance here, what the hell is a "Lek" ????
Martyn :)
Martyn Stewart
Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
http://www.naturesound.org
N47.65543 W121.98428
Redmond. Washington. USA
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
The Spring is cum=20
The grass is riz=20
I wonder where the birdies is?
The birdies on the wing!
Nah, that's absoid
D' wing is on d' boid!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Peet
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 8:05 AM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Tried and trusted friends
Mic was a MKH-110 to a consumer minidisk recorder set at the point
that I had previously id'd as a lek. Manual record level set for near
field recording and I assumed the birds would come back to the same
spot as identified on three locations. I set the recorder for mono
and turned it on one hour before first light and with a 80 min md in
mono I could let it go for 160 mins. This sample was one of the first
arrivals just pre-dawn
I assume this is just two males you hear in this sample. I am not
the expert Lang is in Lek behavior as I lack the formal schooling and
can get myself into trouble fast. I find the Leks much less
organized for these guys than the Greater Prairie Chickens that seem
to form formal circles of dominance within a single lek. It also
appears that the neck balloons don't actually eminate sound as in the
Greater Prairie Chicken. But that also is just my observations.
Rich
--- In Lang Elliott <>
wrote:
> Nice recording Rich. What mike setup did you use?
>
> Lang
>
> Very nice Rich, are all those calls from the male?
> 1GDW
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>
> --- In "Rich Peet" <>
> wrote:
> > Ok, here is a sample.
> >
> > Sharp-tails are in that same group of sounds like Woodfrogs.
> > They sound like little elves, aliens or something from that other
> > place that few people get to visit. Anyway, that is why I am
> willing
> > to have spent the effort to get this.
> >
> > 250kb download
> > http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/ST.mp3
> >
> > Rich
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>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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