Hi David,
Welcome to the group from a fellow Devonian - I'm in Dawlish on the south
coast.
Like you I'm just getting started out in the world of nature recording, but
in my case I have no prior audio knowledge so I'm having to learn all the
concepts and science from scratch - your wealth of experience should be a
big help to you!
Hope you had some luck with the owls. I've been trying (without any great
success) to record the fallow deer rut in Haldon Forest over the past month=
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and the number of tawnys calling around dawn is amazing. Several times I've
had them sitting in a tree right over my head "ke-vicking" non-stop for
several minutes.
All the best,
Tom
On 23 October 2010 19:16, Avocet <> wrote:
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> I'm in Devon in the South West of England which is advertised for its
> sun to holidaymakers, but last night it chucked down and has only just
> cleared an hour ago. I'd left a stereo pair 100 metres into my small
> nature reserve, but had covered them up with a towel and a bin bag.
> The trees are still dripping and the small stream is in spate giving
> me an interesting background atmos. I'm waiting for tawny owls.
>
> I worked for 28 years with the BBC Film Unit in the old Ealing Studios
> where the comedies used to be made, until my "Nagra back" gave out and
> I took early retirement in 1991. I've been sidetracked since with
> pedigree cat breeding and then bat conservation which involves
> recording and computer analysis of bat calls (now using Audacity). I
> still have three rather good mics from the old days and in the end I
> persuaded myself to buy an SQN mixer off ebay and got them rigged up
> with a Tascam DR1. This pocket job gives much superior recordings than
> any tape machine I have used, including ones costing lots of noughts.
>
> I pioneered mobile field coincident mic stereo in the 1970's and still
> find it the cleanest sound. When BBC TV went stereo I was already up
> and running with a Nagra 4S and had recorded several documentaries
> including "World About Us - Cape to Cairo" the railway that was never
> finished. Some of my recordings went on an Argo record for train
> buffs.
>
> BBC Autumnwatch had a feature on Thursday with Chris Watson and some
> of his remarkable wildlife recordings, so I have a long way to go in
> that department.
>
> David
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> David Brinicombe
> North Devon, UK
> Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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