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Re: Greatest Recordings

Subject: Re: Greatest Recordings
From: Wild Sanctuary <>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:46:45 -0700
I've got a couple of "Stump the Chump-expert" recordings if someone
will tell me how to post the MP3s. I'll be out until Wednesday, then
I'll post the sounds. Anyone who can tell me what they are gets a
choice of a free book or CD.

Bernie

>While the group is relatively quiet and Walt is away somewhere? (By the wa=
y,
>where is he?) I ask the question, what has been your best ever recording?
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>Bernie with a Jaguar? Lang in the depths of some swamp chasing the elusive
>Rail? Rich on a quest for Grouse? Doug? Marty? Walt? Jim?
>
>Mine? My most favorite recording I ever made was the Lyrebird in Australia=
,
>having heard them and seeing them on the TV, I had the pleasure of being
>with one in Surfers paradise back in 1999, the Aviary where he was, was so
>quiet he sang for me for over an hour and I had total peace (A rarity thes=
e
>days) I am totally confused to where the bugger was now, I believed it was
>in Currumbin but Syd told me there is not one in captivity?! The wife say'=
s
>it was too.. Anyway, a dream to record, the best mimic I have ever heard,
>later on and earlier in this group, Syd Curtis broke down and deciphered h=
is
>calls, he had no less than 20 odd bird calls to his repertoire. Some feat =
I
>must say, Second best, The Osprey at Loch Garten in Scotland, They were th=
e
>first breading pair to be back in Scotland in years and I knew the Warden
>for the RSPB, he let me in with my mic and stayed in the blind for about 5
>hours recording history, brilliant, Now we have many nesting pairs in
>Scotland again..
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>Over to you lot!!!!
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>Martyn
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>Martyn Stewart
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>Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
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>http://www.naturesound.org
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>N47.65543   W121.98428
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>Redmond. Washington. USA
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>Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
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>The Spring is cum
>The grass is riz
>I wonder where the birdies is?
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>The birdies on the wing!
>Nah, that's absoid
>D' wing is on d' boid!
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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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