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Re: unknown sound

Subject: Re: unknown sound
From: "M, J, & V Phinney" <>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:24:59 -0700
I agree with the others - coyote

The two chirps, however, sound more like robin alarm notes. They have a
ringing quality that the phoebe note lacks

Mark Phinney


on 4/10/06 7:02 AM, Greg Kunkel at  wrote:

> This is a snip from a recording caught automatically in Andes, NY.
> It has been suggested to be:
> screech Owl
> coyote
> snipe (winnowing sound)
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> I am not to sure of any of these. It has a resonance that seems to
> indicate some distance. The two chirps are from what I believe to be
> a phoebe. Phoebes nest under the eaves of the house close to where
> the microphone is placed. It is on a hillside at 2,300 feet in the
> Catskills. The nearest wet fields are a 1/4 mile and the nearest
> wetlands 1/2 mile down in the valley.
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> The microphone is a WM 61B capsule connected to a an old PC running
> the capture software.
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> http://www.catskill.net/gkunk/birds/060631x.mp3
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> Greg Kunkel
> http://www.catskill.net/gkunk/birds/
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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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