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Re: A short dawn chorus recording from AWSRG weekend

Subject: Re: A short dawn chorus recording from AWSRG weekend
From: "Suzanne Williams" scw1217
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 4:32 am ((PDT))
Very nice, Paul! This made a nice wake up for my day.

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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA



--- In  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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