Were you using a shotgun or a parabolic dish Jim?
I have been fooled many times and now when I hear a bird singing and maybe I
get a visual, I look for the bloody breath coming out the mouths!!!
Perhaps the little chap was dancing; they are entitled too are they not!!!!
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
The grass is riz
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: Jim Morgan
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 4:49 PM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] You can't always believe your eyes
Last May I was recording a Lark Bunting through the window of my car. Now
this guy, a male in breeding plumage, was about 35 feet away on a barbed
wire fence and fanning and shaking it's tail during most of the
vocalizations. His back was to me so I couldn't see the bill movements.
The vocalizations really sounded different then I thought a bunting should
sound. I was rather excited thinking that maybe I had a different or rare
Lark Bunting vocalization.
I sent the recording to Geoff Keller for his comments and was surprised that
what I thought was a Lark Bunting was really a Grasshopper Sparrow that was
more or less in line with the Lark Bunting.
Do you suppose the tail movements of the bunting were a coincidence or was
he somehow stimulated by the sparrow's vocalizations?
Jim
Jim Morgan
Prescott, Arizona USA
http://www.wingsofnature.com
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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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