Hi Jonathan,
I enjoyed your recording. I recall hearing this tail
slapping while camping in a lean-to next to a small pond in the
Adirondacks, and then saw the beaver later. It really does make quite
a splash ! I also heard the distant chatter of Wood Frogs in your
recording.
Regards,
Bill
--- In "jw409_010" <>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Since it came up I thought I would post this:
>
> http://users.pshift.com/~vortex/peepersbeaver.mp3
> <http://users.pshift.com/%7Evortex/peepersbeaver.mp3>
>
> I was recording the spring peepers in a beaver bog behind my house
and
> one came out to make his presence known.
>
> Recorded on April 22, 2008, around 5:30 PM in East Albany, Vermont.
The
> rig was a pair of Shure SM81s in an ORTF array into a Sound Devices
Message: 702.
Subject: > The noise that's more prominent in the left channel is the stream
that
> feeds the ponds.
>
> I often hear the Ruffed Grouse around here-wonderful sound. I used
to
> think it was a tractor starting up in the distance!
>
> Jonathan Williams
>
>
> --- In "David Michael"
> <david.michael@> wrote:
> >
> > Right again! Absolutely amazing
> >
> > I have heard and recorded these sounds before, always in sight of
a
> beaver's lodge and
> > had wrongly assumed the link to be causal, rather than
coincidental. I
> have never seen a Ruffed Grouse, and honestly did not know they
existed
> until this moment, but I think their
> > "song" is now one of my favorites.
> >
> > Thanks again for the identification
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > --- In "William Ruscher Jr."
> imonacan@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi again David,
> > >
> > > Another nice recording, and thanks for posting
the
> > > recording and the picture. In my opinion, the low thumping
sounds
> are
> > > the courtship wing beats of a Ruffed Grouse. I also could hear
an
> Am.
> > > Goldfinch in the recording.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In David Michael
> > > <david.michael@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello again
> > > >
> > > > Here is a second recording from this past weekend on
Connecticut
> > > Hill.
> > > > It starts at about 6am on Sunday May 11th at the same pool
where
> > > the
> > > > peepers were singing the night before. I have included a
picture
> > > of
> > > > the sunrise on the road for Bill :) There are a number of bird
> > > species
> > > > in this one, but if I got the identification correctly from
the
> > > > responses, a Gray Catbird is in the foreground, complimented
by a
> > > > number of Chickadees.
> > > >
> > > > I always think I need to set my alarm when camping in order
not to
> > > > miss the chorus, but after the silent night, the dawn chorus
> itself
> > > is
> > > > enough to wake up.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
http://scientificforestry.com/recordings/2008/gray_catbird_5.11.08_6_0
> > > 6.mp3
> > > > http://scientificforestry.com/recordings/2008/IMG_3561.JPG
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for listening!
> > > > David Michael
> > > > http://unnature.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
>
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