Thanks Kevin, for your ID's.
For the female duck you hear, if you are referring to the barking cluck sou=
nds and rapid wing beats, I was wondering if that could be sage grouse - n=
ot the typical display call certainly.
A pair of mallards were stopping in at the various, seeps, springs, and str=
eams in the area throughout the days.
I am wondering if first we hear the mallards cross from left to right, and =
then a sage grouse flies from the front and lands to the near right... just=
guessing. I saw what from a silhouette looked like a sage grouse flying o=
ver just after I left the mics.
The mics aimed over a small meadow with a seeping spring. Though the primar=
y wetland is at the campground about a mile away over a hill and down in a =
valley. The Wilson's snipes winnowing from over there still sound clear bec=
ause they are flying so high.
I am glad you hear Sage Thrasher, a call I have yet to learn but am now pro=
bably about to.
John Hartog
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> Very nice John,
> I hear very distant Wilson's Snipe winnowing, Vesper Sparrow, Sage
> Thrasher, Savannah Sparrow, and some type of female duck (not a
> Mallard). Were you near a wetland? Then you've got excellent display =
> wing claps of the Short-eared owl followed by the screech of one and
> response screech of another owl, finally, the hooting song on the
> Short-eared owl, a song that has not been recorded very often.
> Kevin
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> > Hi Group,
> > Before I put together a page for my Sound Journal, I thought I would =
> > run this by the group first for help with IDs and opinions on the
> > unfolding of events.
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> > http://www.rockscallop.org/ear/jh_090420-0532_owl-at-hart.mp3
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> > Location: Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge
> > Subject: short-eared owls with sageland ambience
> > Date/time: April 20 2009, 05:32am
> > Duration: 2:33 minutes
> > Temperature: ~ 34 Fahrenheit
> > Microphone/Recorder: Rode NT1A / SD702
> > Array: tripod, headspaced, baffle, 60 degrees between axes, stereo.
> > Edits: parametric eq, boost, trim, and fades.
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> > John Hartog
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