I was just visiting the east side of Newfoundland on honeymoon, and made
some recordings of the gannets at Cape St. Marys, as well as some pilot
whales near Trinity. Also made some lovely phonography type recordings of
trees on the skerwink trail and surf recordings near St. John's. If you ar=
e
interested, I'd be happy to share.
Toby
On 9/19/06, Rory <> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As mentioned in an earlier post, I am working on a documentary about
> Newfoundland, and happened to make some recordings of some birds.
> This was August 6th, about two or three hours after sunrise. We were
> at Gros Morne National Park, which is on the Strait of Belle Isle
> between Newfoundland and Labrador. Specifically, we were on Bonne
> Bay, which runs inland from the ocean, on what is known as the East
> Arm. In other words, we were about 13 miles/20 kilometres inland
> (roughly 49.5 N, 57.75 W).
>
> I haven't recorded birds before, but think that I'm going to start.
> As casual as these recordings are, I enjoyed doing them, and I'd
> love to know what the birds are. I'm going to upload five brief
> excerpts to the Member Files part of the site. I know that there
> isn't a lot of room there, so I plan to upload what I can and delete
> the files in 24-48 hours so as not to take up room. If this isn't
> ok, let me know.
>
> The files are:
> Newfoundland bird 1
> Newfoundland bird 2
> Newfoundland bird 3
> Newfoundland woodpecker 4
> Newfoundland what is it 5
>
> A couple of specific questions:
> Are recordings 1 and 2 the same bird?
> Can one identify a woodpecker from the drumming?
> Is recording 5 a bird or something else?
>
> I should add that nothing has been done to the recordings except
> that they have been normalized to -5dB.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rory
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