Peter,
After some more listening this morning, my money is still on a Green
Tree Frog distress call.
Last summer I was hearing that sound a lot, around my house. It took
me a long while to find out what it was. Quite a number of GT Frogs
were living in the cavities of the brick walls of my house and they
would emerge after dark. Then we had a mouse plague - the ordinary
domestic house mouse rather than a native mouse species. They too
got into the wall cavities.
It took many hours of chasing up this call before I found out that
the mice were attacking the frogs and eating them alive. The frogs
would swell up as big as they could, but the mice were nibbling at
their feet. When the frogs were REALLY distressed to the point of
being eaten alive, they would keep up the distress call in short
bursts, and sometimes longer bursts, on and on.
Looking at the sonogram of the mystery calls, they are not all
exactly the same as one another, the first one is a lot different.
So my verdict still is 'not inconsistent with the distress call of
the Green Tree Frog'.
Vicki
On 28/11/2011, at 2:14 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
> Vicki, that was suggested on the birding-aus list too (frog
> distress call), but someone discounted it - "they don't repeate
> them rythmically". Is that not correct?
>
> Peter Shute
>
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> That was a good clean up Mike!
>
> For the call itself, it is very similar to the distress call of a
> Green Tree Frog.
>
> I am not familiar enough with the owls to know if it could be a young
> owl.
>
> Vicki
>
> On 27/11/2011, at 9:35 AM, hartogj wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike, I think that worked on the insect sounds really well.
>>
>> John Hartog
>> rockscallop.org
>>
>> --- In <naturerecordists%
>> 40yahoogroups.com>, "Mike Rooke" <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Heres my attempt, SNR is quite poor.
>>>
>>> http://urlme.net/audio/t98proc.mp3
>>>
>>> Steps:-
>>> MS processing, background noise subtracted in baudline, rendered
>>> into reaper.
>>> processed with dynamic eq and apeq.
>>>
>>> Might be better to replace the ambient floor with noise or gate
>>> it, the bird call is between
>>> 5khz to 10khz
>>>
>>> -Mike.
>>>
>>> --- In <naturerecordists%
>>> 40yahoogroups.com>, Peter Shute <pshute@> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That's the track, but what have you done to it? It sounds
>>>> decidedly weird, with lots of strange clicks and pops (I think
>>>> these are raindrops) and echos.
>>>>
>>>> Peter Shute
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>>>> 40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Avocet
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>>>> To: <naturerecordists%
>>>> 40yahoogroups.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Advice needed for cleaning up
>>>> this recording
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.aviceda.org/audio/?p=208
>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that the call is distant and masked by frog and
>>>>> insect calls. Can anyone suggest techniques for cleaning it up to
>>>>> make the call clearer?
>>>>
>>>> Peter,
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean this one:
>>>> http://www.stowford.org/sounds/tt98_edit_redux.mp3
>>>>
>>>> Because of the distance, the call is rather smudged by reverb.
>>>>
>>>> Best Wishes, David
>>>>
>>>> David Brinicombe
>>>> North Devon, UK
>>>> Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
>>>>
>>>
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