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Re: Winter Rooks

Subject: Re: Winter Rooks
From: "vickipowys" vpowys
Date: Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:32 pm ((PST))
Lovely and evocative David, and I hope you are keeping warm in all  
that snow!

As you say, the sound is a bit too over-compressed and with tinkling  
artifacts.

cheers,

Vicki


On 27/12/2010, at 6:50 AM, Avocet wrote:

> I've been snowed in for nine days and have been spending my time
> recording day and night with my Sennheisers in the wood and on a new
> bird table. They have survived snow and still gave good sound with six
> inches of snow on the yeti windgags. I've got cine plus sound of a
> Pied Woodpecker pecking at the nut dispenser after some practicing by
> it and by me.
>
> I've now got days of recordings to select from, but here's some rooks
> this evening. The rookery is about a mile across the valley but they
> come visiting my woods from time to time. Behind the rook noise there
> is a crow trying to get a word in edgewise which it does near the end.
> I think the odd call after that could be a local Raven making one of
> its funny noises. It's a little over-compressed at 64kb/s.
>
> http://www.stowford.org/sounds/dr000864rooksq64.mp3
>
> David
>
> David Brinicombe
> North Devon, UK
> Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
>
>
>









"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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