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Subject: Re: Duck Party
From: "Suzanne Williams" scw1217
Date: Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:05 am ((PDT))
Sounds like an active place, Rich. I enjoyed the recording.

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Suzanne
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Florida, USA

"When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they
believe in anything." =97 G. K. Chesterton, 1936

--- In  "Rich Peet" <>
wrote:
>
> I have an unknown Duck to id.  NW Wisconsin yesterday, but likely is
> an international species. Recording in snow and wind while wearing
the
> Guille suit I could not use the optics to get a good enough look.
> What I thought I saw was a diving, small, round, black headed duck,
> with white sidewalls. Males display by arching their heads back all
> the way to the water while swimming. Sound is like an old antique
> party favor toy. I thought Lesser Scaup by my eyes but the sound
once
> I got home I don't think is right for that.  I am now dreaming for
it
> to be a Golden Eye.
> 800kb download, file edited to help snow and wind.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/scaup.mp3
>
> Mics held together fine all the way to being snow and ice packed.
>
> Any help is appreciated otherwise will figure it out sometime with
> more work.
>
> Rich Peet
>






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