Very interesting recording, John. Not a bird I hear a lot of
recordings of. And I, unfortunately, have a hard time imagining
cockatoos in the wild. It must be a great sight.
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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
--- In "John Tudor" <>
wrote:
>
> This recording was made at 5:30 am on Tuesday the 6th May 2008 on
the
> River Murray above Blanchetown.
>
> For those interested, there is a Google Earth KML file of the
location
> here too.
>
> I'd only just recieved my new Sound Devices 702 CF recorder the week
> before and only two days before had recieved and rigged a Rode NT1-A
> and a Legacy Axis-70 ribbon. I set these as a vertical M/S stereo in
> some PVC piping. Kerry made up the wind fur for me the night before
we
> left on the houseboat trip on the 5th. The other people with us on
> the holdiay thought we'd brought a pet Racoon along for the week.
>
> The recording is my first made with any intent.
>
> The squacking background is the giant flock of Sulphar Crested
> Cockatoo about 1 km away. The entrie recording was about 10 minutes
> long but after about 4 minutes becomes un-usable due to the
cockatoos.
> So this edited recording is only about 3:30 long.
>
> The main interest here is the 'chatter' that goes on in the first
one
> and half to two minutes between a couple of Kookaburras.
>
> There is a fade out/in towards the end where I chopped out a large
> group of cockatoos flying overhead. Finally in the closing seconds,
> there is my favorite melodic Australian bird, the Magpie. It's only
> there for a couple of seconds but is still a nice sound.
>
> The only post work done is cutting out some lower frequencies that
> relate to a camping ground across the river and a road somewhere
> nearby. I also gain matched the channels.
>
> Regards
> John
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/John%27s%
20Files/Kookaburra\
> -River%20Murray.mp3
>
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