When I was a kid, I use to lay on my back in the cornfield back home and
watch the skylark fly up and up and up, singing melodiously until it saw
it's prey and then descend to the ground, you could hear a skylark for miles
and you would scan the sky until you found it as a dot in the heavens. They
were/are magnificent birds. Eurasian blackbirds too, Paul McCartney jammed
with one and recorded it on the white album "the Beatles"
The skylark and the blackbird are well down on numbers now, as is the House
sparrow, song thrush and starling back home!!!
These are my indicators when things are right and healthy.....
Geoff Sample would be able to tell me now how they are doing; changes in
farming methods have taken their toll on many birds including the beloved
corncrake........
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
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: Rich Peet
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:54 PM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Greatest Recordings
This doesn't take any thought for me at all.
The best is not the hardest, rarest, or most difficult to capture.
It is a sound I love, as well as a sound I heard while I fell in love.
It is a sound found that tells that the next morning I will find more
than 50 species per hour. It tells me that I am on good land. It is a
indicator good land and of good times. This species is my best. To
record it well, you have to have the knock heard between.
100kb download at:
http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/best.mp3
I have asked others of an indicator of when you are on good land
where you can record more than 50 species for one hour recording.
This is my answer and I would welcome any other indicators.
Rich Peet
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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