freaking myself out with blackbird

["Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999]

I put on a disc I'd made in August of 2002 with a compilation of my 
recordings from the 2002 Nature Sounds Society Workshop. Immediately 
I heard ZIP...ZIP...ZIP on top of a Sierra Valley ambience. Omigod, I 
thought, this disc is failing! I have CDRs older than this that are 
still fine. I tried it on a couple of machines. I checked the stock 
it was on--Yamaha 24x. I only had one small batch of that.

This morning I found the session and audio in my CD-ROM archives, 
loaded it in, burned a new copy, and printed labels. Imagine my 
chagrin when I played my new disc. ZIP...ZIP...ZIP...

That sound was natural. A blackbird (yellow-headed?), quite close, 
making a very mechanical noise! I'd forgotten what it sounded like.

http://www.dandugan.com/downloads/blackbird_train_frog.mp3

-Dan Dugan