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Re: Digest Number 3548

Subject: Re: Digest Number 3548
From: "M, J, & V Phinney" badgreenbird
Date: Sat May 26, 2007 12:46 am ((PDT))
The sound did have an 'appended' quality to it; it certainly stood out as
being different from the toad calls, but the explanation seems reasonable.

Often, however, tinkering with the sounds to 'improve' them actually ends u=
p
distorting things, especially in relation to whatever else might be used as
comparison.

I have no idea what the sound was, but it doesn't sound like any bittern or
young great horned owl I've ever heard!

Mark Phinney



on 5/25/07 11:42 AM, Meena Haribal at  wrote:

Martyn

Well, I should have explained here to this group.  First I had sent this to
local group that will not understand this difference. I got caught, but am
not guilty of adding the sound here.

Ok I  but just amplified it (the area of knock using Raven) a bit so people
can hear it better and I did filter out some additional noise produced when
I amplified that area.

The sound is exactly in the same place and not added!

Is it a Great Horned Owl young begging or a bittern?

At 02:06 PM 5/25/2007, you wrote:
>5a. Re: Sound ID
>     Posted by: "Martyn Stewart" 
<mstew%40naturesound.org>  mijdog2000
>     Date: Fri May 25, 2007 7:01 am ((PDT))
>
><<<<<Hi all,
>Yesterday night, around 10.00 PM, I was sitting in my yard and listening t=
o
>nightflight calls of Gray-Cheeked Thrushes and anything I could hear other
>than busy highway noise of NYS 79, in Ithaca New York.
>There were several Grey Tree Frogs calling loudly from my and my neighbor'=
s
>yard and somewhere in the vicinity were also American Toads singing (no
>ponds anywhere close by). While listening to the sounds, I heard this call
>a double note "kyank kyank", that called several times. I think it was a
>bird as I felt it was coming from the top of the trees. but don't know wha=
t
>it is. So I went in and got my recorder out to record it. But I just
>managed to record it call one more time. It did call a little later amidst
>heavy traffic but I did not record it.
>
>The call is at the end of this piece of this link. Does anyone know what i=
t
>could be?
>
>http://www.people.
><http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mmh3/mystreybird%2052407%203.mp3>
>cornell.edu/pages/mmh3/mystreybird%2052407%203.mp3
>
>or http://tinyurl. <http://tinyurl.com/2btj6v> com/2btj6v
>
>Meena<<<<<<
>
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>
>I know the call but tell me, why did you add it into the recording? If you
>look at it on a sonogram you can see that the sound has been pasted into t=
he
>frog recordings.
>
>Tell me why you did it and I will tell you the sound of the animal...
>
>
>
>Martyn

Meena Haribal
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"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause


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