Just lovely, Paul, bloody marvelous!
Martyn
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> On Oct 5, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Paul Jacobson wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just wanted to share a small portion of a recording I made over the
> > weekend at Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary, near Linton (40 km SW of
> > Ballarat, and roughly 120km west of Melbourne, Victoria).
> >
> > The Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group had arranged the
> weekend
> > as an informal get together of Victorian members, and as an excuse
> to
> > gather enough members to reach a quorum for their annual general
> > meeting. In all 6 local recordists and various partners attentended.
> > I'd only met one member previously - Howard Plowright (best know
> > for his
> > work editing and compiling the Bird Observers Club of Australia 10
> CD
> > field guide to Australian Bird Song), so it was wonderful to have
> the
> > opportunity to meet some of the "names" behind recordings I've
> > heard on
> > the cd which accompanies the groups journal. (As an aside the
> AWSRG CD
> > is edited and compiled by Nature-Recordist denizen Viki Powys who
> > does a
> > fantastic job preparing 2 CD's of members recordings a year).
> >
> > Over the course of the weekend several members made presentations on
> > their work - Fred Van Gessel (AWSRG president and NSW interloper)
> > on the
> > bird song of Iron Range in Far North Queensland, Andrew Skeoch on
> his
> > recording experiences in Thailand plus a short discussion of the
> > complex
> > tapestry of "niches" occupied by individual species in the
> > soundscape of
> > his local dawn chorus, and Michael Gallagher presented his
> > observations
> > on the communication function of the "tseee" call of European
> > Blackbird.
> >
> > Anyway, my "audio postcard" from the weekend is this segement of a
> > recording of the dawn chorus made in an area of the sanctuary
> > called the
> > Bird Paddock. It had rained heavily the previous evening so
> everything
> > was quite damp, and the air was still. The gear used was an Oade
> > modded
> > Tascam HDP2, and a pair of AT3032 mounted on a head-spaced boundary
> > array. Some of the more obvious calls are Pallid Cuckoo, Eastern
> > Yellow
> > Robin, Long Billed Corella, Crimson Rosella and Grey Shrike Thrush.
> >
> > http://www.urbanbirder.com.au/node/85
> >
> > cheers
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
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