Mitch,
I visited Massachusetts this spring and found the same general level
of human noise everywhere. I had a bit more luck at Plum Island NWR
but never really got away from the noise completely.
Kevin
On Jul 4, 2010, at 10:27 PM, Mitch Hill wrote:
> At 10:07 PM 7/4/2010 -0600, you wrote:
> >Mitch,
> >Very humorous at the end, like the crow was being strangled!
> >
> >How is recording at Cape Cod? Is it difficult to find the natural
> >places and get away from the crowds?
>
> Regretfully, virtually impossible, people and their infernal
> machines are
> everywhere....
>
> I'm sure you noticed the airplane in the background all through that
> crow
> recording, there is also some car traffic noises as well. The local
> skydiving operation and grass field airport is about 2 1/2 miles
> north of
> here and the main commuter airport is 4 miles east and with two
> major roads
> running out the cape, one on the south side, one on the north side,
> its
> noise everywhere...
> And then to the west about 8 miles away is Camp Edwards, Otis AFB
> which is
> also Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod.... I could go on about the
> boating
> harbors and school buildings and shopping malls with huge air
> conditioning
> plants on the roof etc. etc. however you get the idea I'm sure. Now
> that we
> have good major highways coming to the Cape, much of the Cape is a
> bedroom
> community for the City of Boston now days and people are always going
> somewhere by car, truck or airplane. And yet for all that, I just
> came in
> from standing in the end of my driveway listening to a pack of Coyotes
> running and yapping somewhere between here and the village... And as I
> listened, three cars came barreling by...
>
> The Cape is simply not a place to get away from noise...
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch & Shadow...
>
> http://www.4shared.com/dir/UTASxktL/wildlife.html
>
> Shadow's area: http://www.4shared.com/dir/ecfWjyZb/Shadow.html
>
>
>
>
"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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