At 10:05 AM 9/6/2005, you wrote:
>Syd,
>I just got myself a present, the book "Acoustic Communication in Insects
>and Anurans" by H. Carl Gerhardt and Franz Huber. Great book with tons
>of detailed information! It is opening my ears to what is happening
>with the cicadas, katydids, and crickets I used to find an annoyance.
>Now I try to record any insects I come across during my recording
>adventures. I hope that someday someone will have a sound field guide
>to help me identify the recordings I am making.
>Kevin J Colver
Me too, Kevin. I try to listen to all those "incidental" sounds that I see,=
more than hear, in many recordings. Since I monitor the outdoors outside
the office all the time, I often record a few minutes of whatever's going
on out there and examine the spectrograph. Generally there are sounds in
the recording that are way too high for me hear. I resample these to about=
1/4 speed and often find them sounding a lot like audible tree crickets or=
katydids. I'd love to know what they all are. Since I can't hear them in
real time, I can't search for them using the parabola. The bat detector
does a better job!
Doug
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