Beautiful recording, Mike, and well worth your time and the loss of
your boot!
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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
--- In Michael Oates <> wrote:
>
> Dawn Chorus 4 May 2008 Compilation
>
> I thought I would share my very first recording of a dawn chorus,
it just happened that I
> planned to do this on the very same day as International Dawn
Chorus Day, yes it really
> was a coincidence. I was using it as a practice run for next
weekend when I am going on a
> trip to the Northumberland National Park for wildlife recording.
>
> This is recorded just outside of a village called Walshaw in
Lancashire UK. The file below
> is a compilation of approx 5 x 2 min clips from a single 44 min
recording started at
> 4:54am I was planning an earlier start, but when I got to the
location I was going to
> record from, I got stuck, literally. Note to self: "do not walk
through fields that you
> have not walked through in daylight first" I ended up almost knee
deep in a bog, took all
> my effort to keep the gear out of the mud, sacrificing my foot to
the wet mud when my
> Wellington boot came off !.
>
> Once I got out I was all set to go home wet and frustrated, but I
found another spot on a
> public footpath not too far away and decided to stay and record. I
am glad I did, as these
> are the best bird recordings I have done yet. Some of the time
there was some light rain
> but it was light enough not to record, later on it got quite heavy
as you will be able to
> hear.
>
> I won't try and say which birds are on the recording, because I am
very new to this and I
> am learning to identify them, for me it's a long slow process.
>
> Recorded using a modified Jecklin Disk array with two Sennheiser
MKH20 mics to a Fostex
> FR-2LE via a Sound Devices 302 mixer. The whole array was protected
from the wind rain
> with faux fur over a frame. I had the 160Hz high pass filter on the
302 and used a very
> gentle base EQ cut in Audition to remove some distant traffic
rumble.
>
> The file is 10m54s long and is a 14.9MB mp3 encoded at 192kbps
>
>
http://www.mikeoates.org/arl/wildlife/dawn_chorus_compilation_20080504
.mp3
>
> Mike
>
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