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Re: More Lehua Islet sounds

Subject: Re: More Lehua Islet sounds
From: "dkuhn012001" dkuhn012001
Date: Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:39 pm ((PDT))
Thanks a lot, Vicki!
David

--- In  vickipowys <> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> These recordings are wonderful!  Thanks for the link.  As an inland
> dweller it was lovely to be reminded again of the ocean.  I
> especially liked the blowhole, wheezing and gurgling, fantastic
> stereo sound!  Felt like I was right there.  Shearwaters and Boobies
> amazing too.
>
> Vicki Powys
> Australia
>
>
> On 11/09/2009, at 8:28 AM, dkuhn012001 wrote:
>
> > Hi Naturerecordists members, I didn't realize members of this list
> > may not be able to access files on the Naturerecording list, so
> > have created the same folder in "files" on this site. Sorry for the =

> > oversight.
> > Aloha,
> > David
> >
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/Lehua%
> > 20Islet%20sounds/
> > or:
> > http://tinyurl.com/qkojuw
> >
> >
> > --- In  David Kuhn
> > <dkuhn012001@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all, I created a folder of several files on the
> >> Naturerecording  (that's -ING) site, of more sounds from Lehua
> >> Islet--
> >>
> >>  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Naturerecording/files/Lehua%20Islet%
> >> 20sounds/
> >>
> >>  or http://tinyurl.com/mo4fqc
> >>
> >> "Lehua sea cave" is the one I posted last week, with Black
> >> Noddies, very deep pneumatic sounds from inside the cave, and
> >> thunder, the only evidence of Hurricane Felicia. The lightning
> >> strike was about two miles directly offshore, so it reverbed in
> >> the cave nicely. The .jpg photo is yours truly hard at work.
> >> "Lehua Blowhole" is a small gentle would-be blowhole outside the
> >> sea cave. The "mouth" is not much bigger than a human's, inhaling
> >> and exhaling much to my amusement.
> >> "RFBO Lehua" is a colony of Red-footed Boobies in the evening as
> >> the adults return from foraging at sea; Also heard are Wedge-
> >> tailed Shearwaters.
> >> "WTSH short" is a colony of Wedgetailed Shearwaters at night at
> >> our camp. The low voice is the female, the higher is the male.
> >> This goes on all night, but not too disturbing until the night I
> >> mistakenly slept in a hammock two feet from a nester.
> >>
> >> I'll leave this folder intact for a couple weeks, then remove to
> >> make room.
> >>
> >> I had a great time out there, mostly recording at night. I'll
> >> return next May to record other species' colonies (Laysan and
> >> Black-foot Albatross, and several Endangered Species, etc.) Each
> >> evening I listened with Telinga for incoming unseen birds, with
> >> some very interesting success. On one night of light winds I
> >> listened from camp, facing the mountain-side, while two
> >> ornithologist colleagues tramped around on the crater.  I would
> >> shine a laser in the direction of heard Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
> >> calls, they would confirm the heard sound and head in that
> >> direction. The active nest of this species has never been observed =

> >> in Hawai`i, hence our willingness to expend such energy.
> >>
> >> Again, headphones recommended.
> >>
> >> Aloha,
> >> David
> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >> David Kuhn
> >> www.soundshawaiian.com
> >> david@
> >> dkuhn012001@
> >> 808 335 0398
> >> Cell 808 651 8247
> >> Mail to: PO Box 1018
> >> Waimea, Kaua'i HI 96796
> >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >>
> >
> >
>











"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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