How about a Red Fox, Bernie? Are they around there?
Doug
At 01:32 PM 4/18/2010, you wrote:
>We also have bobcats around here, Chris. The thing that steered me
>away from owls was (1) I'd never heard an owl like that and (2) it has
>some pretty low freq material around 170Hz. While I've recorded baby
>vulture vox down to around 140Hz, it's a bit unusual, but I suspect it
>is an avian call of some kind. I just can't imagine what given the
>bird mix around these here parts.
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>Bernie
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>On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:06 PM, chris wrote:
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> > Re: Unidentified critter =AD help please:
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> > Hi Bernie,
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> >> I am almost positive your unidentified sound is an owl, last
> >> couple of nights 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!
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> > Chris Davidson
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> > --- In Bernie Krause <>
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> >> Hi fellas and gals,
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> >> 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
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> >> at around 8:20P when there was still a bit of light left. We live
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> >> hilly oak chaparral habitat at about 125m (415 ft). The weather was
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> >> 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
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> >> five frogs that live in close proximity to each other temporally
> >> partition their voices to successfully vocalize).
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> >> 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
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> >> Any thoughts would be most helpful.
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> >> Unknown sound.mp3
> >> Unidentified critter
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> >> Bernie Krause
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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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>Wild Sanctuary
>POB 536
>Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>707-996-6677
>http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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>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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