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Subject: Re: Unidentified critter =96 help please
From: "chris" pueo9
Date: Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:06 pm ((PDT))







Re: Unidentified critter =96 help please:

Hi Bernie,

> I am almost positive your unidentified sound is an owl, last couple  of n=
ights I have heard similar almost "scream " sounds and will try to  record =
it  with the Telinga tonight. Here in the Santa Monica   Mountains it would=
 be so great to be wrong and have it be a cat!
>
 Chris Davidson




--- In  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
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