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Re: A short dawn chorus recording from AWSRG weekend

Subject: Re: A short dawn chorus recording from AWSRG weekend
From: "Phil Tyler" macmang4125
Date: Wed Oct 8, 2008 3:50 am ((PDT))
Wow!

Phil

--- 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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