Rich,
What mic were you recording with that night?
Jerry Berrier, Shrewsbury, MA
508-845-9944
http://www.townisp.com/~jerry.berrier
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From:
On Behalf Of Rich Peet
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 11:26 AM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Eastern Screech Owl
Thank you everyone for the owl info on and off list. It will help a lot.
We are lucky to have a large wilderness area in MN with no lights and no low
planes allowed. It also has more breeding birds than anywhere else in the
US. Search under boundry waters canoe area for more info and let me know if
you come to visit.
I don't carry a flashlight when walking in the woods at night as I want to
be grabbing for the mic when something happens and not a light. I
understand that the led lights are small and work well and should get one.
I don't know if I shared this story with this group or not but as an
illustration I link this 2 meg download that is not great quality.
It was a dark and stormy night and I was walking along a lake shore at about
midnight. Then something came out of the water behind me. In seconds I
figured out they were also in front of me and buckthorn to my side so I
couldn't run. I turned on the mic and this is the first recording I ever
got of these guys. They decided to let me live.
http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/0120.01.mp3
Rich
--- In Debbi B <> wrote:
>
> As one who likes to hike at night (with a red flashlight, if at all),
> I've found a few websites of interest.
>
>
> This site in particular has quite a lot of links relating to the
> environmental impacts:
> http://www.darksky.org/links/enviro.html#birds
>
> This shows a satellite view of artificial light (if you're not in the
> US, there's also a world map):
> http://www.inquinamentoluminoso.it/worldatlas/pages/fig2.htm and
> http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/rhgiles/Trevey/LunarForces.htm
>
> At least some of these have a zoomed-in clip from the above map,
> showing the local area (and predict clouds and moonlight)--click the
> Light Pollution Map link of a local Clear Sky Clock page:
> http://cleardarksky.com/csk/big_clist.html
>
> Debbi
>
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> > >
> >Very intrigued and struck by this, Martyn, as I was looking out the
> >other night over snow and astonished by the levels of orange light
> >here in the country on a moonless, overcast night.
> >
> >But how does this stand up against the fact that for at least half
> >the month moonlight is far brighter, even in quite overcast
> >conditions? I rely on the moon a lot to pick my way around at night -
> >don't think I would feel as confident with distant streetlighting and
> >would probably take a torch!
> >
> >Seriously, though, is this effect real and do you know of any
> >studies? I'd never thought of it before, only of the effect of
> >traffic noise on the ability of owls to locate food.
> >
> >Romilly H
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> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >"Microphones are not ears,
> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
> >A listening room is not nature."
> >Klas Strandberg
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
Yahoo! Groups Links
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