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Re: [Nature Recordists] Unidentified critter =96 help please

Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Unidentified critter =96 help please
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:51 pm ((PDT))
Yup. The really good field recordists these days (a la Martyn Stewart
and Chris Watson) never go into the field at night without a
nightscope. Wish I had one.

BK


On Apr 18, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Wil Hershberger wrote:

> How cool is that?! The Pacific Chorus frog is to the left of the
> sound stage and seems to be responding to the "cat" scream. Both the
> high pitched call and the more broad spectrum scream of the "cat"
> seem to be slightly right of center. Don't you wish that there were
> a small video camera associated with these setups?
> I will be very keen to hear what others think of the "cat" sound.
>
>
> Wil Hershberger
> Nature Images and Sounds, LLC
> Hedgesville, WV
> The Songs of Insects
> My Blog
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> On Apr 18, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Bernie Krause wrote:
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>> Here's the sound I was trying to ID, folks. http://groups.yahoo.com/grou=
p/naturerecordists/files/Unknown%20sound.mp3
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Bernie Krause wrote:
>>
>>> Hi fellas and gals,
>>>
>>> Last night, while recording Pacific tree frogs, this happened (look
>>> for "unidentified sound.mp3") in the audio file listings. Martyn
>>> thinks I'm pulling some frog legs. But actually, we've heard this
>>> sucker over the period of a couple of evenings, now. This one
>>> occurred
>>> at around 8:20P when there was still a bit of light left. We live
>>> in a
>>> hilly oak chaparral habitat at about 125m (415 ft). The weather
>>> was in
>>> the high 50s F (about 15C). It was recorded with a 722 and MKH30/40
>>> and is part of a larger clip (where I was looking at the ways in
>>> which
>>> five frogs that live in close proximity to each other temporally
>>> partition their voices to successfully vocalize).
>>>
>>> Mountain lions have been seen in and around where we live recently.
>>> And the thought occurred to me it might be a lion alarm scream of
>>> some
>>> kind.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts would be most helpful.
>>>
>>> Unknown sound.mp3
>>> Unidentified critter
>>>
>>> Bernie Krause
>>>
>>>
>>> Wild Sanctuary
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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
>>> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>> Wild Sanctuary
>> POB 536
>> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>> 707-996-6677
>> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
>> 
>> Google Earth zooms: http://earth.wildsanctuary.com
>> SKYPE: biophony
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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
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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707-996-6677
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