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Re: Ithaca, NY - Two pools of Spring Peepers, Pickerel Frog

Subject: Re: Ithaca, NY - Two pools of Spring Peepers, Pickerel Frog
From: "" jerkabobber
Date: Wed May 14, 2008 3:44 am ((PDT))
Real nice recording David, nice length too. Boy those suckers get load... I had 
to turn down my computer speakers!! Well done.

Dave


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From: David Michael <>
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Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 6:01 pm
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Ithaca, NY - Two pools of Spring Peepers, Pickerel 
Frog






Hello List,

This is my first recording of the season as well as the first time I 
have heard a Pickerel Frog in the flesh. The recording was made this 
past Saturday night, May 10th, on Connecticut Hill in Ithaca New York 
at about 8:30 pm . Two medium sized pools, separated by a bank of 
trees each host a small group of Spring Peepers, each engaging in 
their own choral bouts. A single Pickerel Frog quietly calls out from 
among the Peepers. Gunshots can be heard in the distance, presumably 
from hunters, though I do not know what is in season. The is a call at 
about 6:00 that I cannot identify.. perhaps the call of another 
species I have never heard or perhaps a hybrid or even a strange 
peeper or a release call? Can anyone assist in its identification?

The recording begins quietly with the sounds of the background group 
of Peepers in chorus beyond the trees. The group of peepers in the 
foreground begin at about 1:15 and goes through five short bouts over 
the course of the recording before finishing in a final long sustained 
bout which is faded out. The recording was stopped due to a passing 
car. Dropping temperatures put a halt to the chorus about an hour and 
a half after this recording was taken. Unfortunately, I do not know 
what the temperature was at the time of the recording.

Can someone on the list please help me to identify the birds in the 
background?

As in previous posts, my rig has remained unchanged: Sennheiser MKH 
30/40 MS pair mounted in blimp on a tripod using a Fostex FR2-LE. The 
side mic (MKH 40) was mixed in at about 66% relative to the mid (MKH 
40).

There is a slight hiss (very slight) which I presume is the self-noise 
of the microphones and is probably not helped by the FR2-LE's preamps. 
Any comment on this? I have experimented and recorded alot with this 
rig, and this is the best performance I can squeeze out of it. Is this 
a typical self-noise level of the MKHs and I am just expecting too 
much from microphones?

http://scientificforestry.com/recordings/2008/peepers_pickerel_5.10.08_20_35.mp3
12:45, ~30Mb

Here is an image from an adjacent pool.
http://scientificforestry.com/recordings/2008/IMG_3534.JPG

David Michael
http://unnature.net


 






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