Anna's hummingbird, white-crowned sparrow, common snipe, Rock wren.?
Martyn
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Martyn Stewart
http://www.naturesound.org
Redmond. WA
425-898-0462
Make every garden a wildlife habitat
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On Jul 15, 2007, at 9:22 PM, John Hartog wrote:
> Fellow recordists,
>
> On my drive back up to Oregon from the Nature Sound Society workshop,
> I camped in the Warner Mountains in Modoc County, California. Here is
> a highlight from a recording of mine of a lively dawn chorus over a
> wet meadow surrounded by desert sage in the foreground and behind; a
> pine forest to the distant center and right; and a large grove of
> aspen distant center and left. (41sec, 645kb)
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> http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh-070625-0433_dismal-swamp.mp3
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> I mostly want to know what makes the long series of buzzy expressions
> (near left and also a bit out and right)? Are those blackbirds of some
> sort? Opinions regarding IDs for any of the species in this recording
> will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Someone at one of the NSS field trips pointed out to me what a Snipe
> sounds like, and I can hear snipes in this recording: it's those
> swirly-woops. The background is very busy with what sounds like a
> whole lot of robins.
>
> John Hartog
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