These sound great Martyn! Quack! For some reason I thought ducks
hated Europeans?
On Mar 22, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Martyn Stewart wrote:
> http://naturesound.org/this_weeks_recordings/Entries/2009/3/22_mallard_at=
tack.html
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> The season of the mallard is amongst us! I have what I call a =93mallard
> feeder=94 in my garden and each night I fill it up with around 20lbs of
> seed. Religiously every morning I get over 60 mallards fly in and
> literally gobble the bloody lot up! I don=92t have a pond as such, these
> ducks found this treat about 5 years ago and have been coming ever
> since. About this time too 6 to 10 wood ducks join the feast.. Here is
> a recording of the mallards and wood ducks descending on the feeder.
>
> Recorder: SD788T
> Microphone: 2x MKH-40/30 systems
> 4 channel recording mixed down to 2 channels.
> Tripod mounted with Windpac windjammers.
> Sample/bit rate: 44.1k 24 bit
> Time: 07:10
> Temp: 38f
> Humidity: 68%
> Winds: calm
> Recordist: Martyn Stewart
>
> Other birds in the recording are: Varied thrush/Dark-eyed junco/
> Spotted towhee/Steller=92s jay/winter wren/american robin/american crow
>
> Martyn
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