Hi All
My two evening walks trying to record Nightingales took place at the Essex =
Wildlife Trust's Fingringhoe Wick Reserve.
http://www.essexwt.org.uk/visitor_centres__nature_reserves/fingringhoe_wick=
/
Today I visited another of the Trust's reserves at Weeley Hall Wood, again =
with the intent of recording nightingales.
http://www.essexwt.org.uk/visitor_centres__nature_reserves/weeleyhall_wood_=
nature_reserve/
I was there late afternoon and enjoyed 90 minutes of almost non stop bird s=
ong. Based on my experience of the two walks I'm reasonably sure they were=
nightingales as they had some of the characteristics explained during the =
evening walks. If I'm wrong (I'm even more of a tyro at birding than recor=
ding) please let me know.
I took along two sets of recording equipment. A Sony RH1 minidisc fed by a=
DIY parabolic reflector using two EM172 capsules
https://picasaweb.google.com/G0SBW.PM/DIYParabolicReflector
and the small barrier sized, head spaced rig mentioned in earlier posts, ag=
ain using EM172 capsules, feeding the Olympus LS-10.
A snippet from the recording made with the parabolic reflector is here
http://soundcloud.com/g0sbw/nightingales-whwood-1st-may
And this is one made with the head spaced barrier
http://soundcloud.com/g0sbw/nightingales-weeley-hall-wood
I think I will be visiting this wood again ;-)
Cheers, TomR
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