Alexia,
Thanks for sharing your recording and observations. Recording a
species requires time with the creatures, time that results in
knowledge of behavior that most would miss. You have spent that time
and been enriched. It's nice to hear your narrative on the events.
Kevin Colver
On May 28, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Alexia Stevens wrote:
> I finally got around to getting an audio clip up on my school's
> website.
> It is the story of some hungry young crows and their disgruntled
> parents. I recorded this with a Sony Hi-MD recorder and Telinga stereo
> microphone in a parabolic dish, on June 30, 2007.
>
> You can go right to the sound here:
> http://www.wildernessawareness.org/audio/2007-06-30_crow.mp3
>
> Here's the caption from the website: I heard a pair of young fledged
> crows whining as their parents were out
> foraging. They glanced at me standing just below them with my big
> microphone, but didn=92t seem to worry. You hear the young birds
> vocalize
> more as the parents return with food. Right after the fledglings got
> fed, the parents noticed me and started yelling.
>
> Listen for the crow begging calls at 6, 18, and 31 seconds. They have
> that "shiftless teenager" sound. This was before the parents returned.
>
> At 41 seconds Mom and Dad came back. Listen to how their voices are
> muffled from the food in their beaks. They fed the babies=97listen
> for the
> swallowing. At 53 seconds the parents spotted me and really let me
> have
> it. You=92ll hear the volume change as they swoop towards and away
> from me.
>
> I love how the voices of individual birds are evident in this
> recording,
> from the clueless juveniles to the preoccupied parents suddenly
> noticing
> me skulking in the bushes...
>
> I didn't do any editing except fade out some low frequencies in
> between
> crow calls. I sort of like the suburban ambiance in the background,
> and
> the crows started sounding tinny if I took out more. If more
> experienced
> ears hear changes that could be made, please let me know.
>
> Alexia Stevens
> Woodinville, WA
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> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
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