Hi ams,
I like your recording - definitely good for a first try. The cicadas make a=
nice background. Thanks for pointing out the wing-snapping.
There does seem to be some handling or body movement noise, so that could b=
e an area to improve.
John Hartog
rockscallop.org
--- In Abhijit Menon-Sen <> wrote:
>
> Hello, (fellow!) Nature Recordists.
>
> After years of (mostly) lurking on this list, I now have my own Olympus
> LS-11 recorder, and I paid a visit to Okhla Bird Sanctuary in New Delhi,
> India, to try it out this morning.
>
> I was lucky enough to quickly find one of my favourite singers, the
> Yellow-bellied Prinia (Prinia flaviventris), singing away in the Typha
> reedbeds by the Yamuna river, and doubly lucky that I managed to get a
> decent recording on the first attempt. The background noise is Cicadas,
> but if you listen closely, you can hear the wing-snapping display
> typical of Prinias.
>
> Here's an MP3: http://toroid.org/ams/snd/prinia-flaviventris.mp3
>
> http://toroid.org/ams/etc/first-bird-recording has more details, and a
> photograph of the species (but not the bird I recorded, which I didn't
> see).
>
> (Comments are welcome, including suggestions about how to improve my
> future recordings.)
>
> -- ams
>
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