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Subject: 1. Re: Virginia Rail Night
From: "Martyn Stewart" mijdog2000
Date: Wed Apr 1, 2009 4:56 am ((PDT))
Very nice, Kevin me ol china!!!!

Martyn Stewart
www.naturesound.org

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Please excuse any spelling mistakes I make on this tiny keyboard

On Mar 31, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Kevin Colver <> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Last week I was able to spend the night at the wetlands of Fish
> Springs, NWR.  I've posted a little sample at www.7Loons.com.
> Recorded with SD722 and Sennheiser 30/40 MS pair.
>
> Here is the description of the recording:
>
> The night was moonless, the chill was deepening, and the metronome
> clicking song of Virginia Rails had gone on for hours.  At 01:30 an
> American Wigeon dropped into the marshy pond, setting off some
> comments from drowsy neighbors.  A Mallard flew in.  Then a coyote got
> his pack song started, setting off a challenge song from a distant
> pack.  The coyotes started the distant Sora=E2=80=99s singing and calling=
.
> Despite the darkness, a Marsh Wren sings a few notes.  Towards the end
> of the recording a female Mallard gets noisy and a female Green-winged
> Teal gives her worried quacks.
>
> If you have good ears and good speakers/headphones you may hear the
> Great Horned Owl hooting in the distance.  Even harder to hear is the
> hooting of a Short-eared Owl about 20 seconds into the recording
> followed about 15 seconds later by the rattling wing claps the owl
> makes in a display flight.  The rattling is heard distantly again
> later in the recording.
>
>
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
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>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause
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