mbert
Date: Wed May 30, 2012 9:56 pm ((PDT))
Hi David,
These are young Tawny Owls calling, not often encountered but I have heard =
them a few times in the UK (I've even seen them making the call). Lovely re=
cording.
David Darrell-Lambert
Bird Brain UK
Suite 11908, 2nd Floor
145-157 St. John Street
London. EC1 4PY
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On 30 May 2012, at 23:30, Avocet <> wrote:
> http://soundcloud.com/stowfordnature/dr1000-2455nr9-02-30trim
>
> All night call
>
> If these are squirrels, I've never heard them call continuously all
> night from the end of the evening chorus to dawn. I first picked them
> (at least three) the night before last on my garden mics 150 metres
> away (500 old feet). Last night, listening out in my bedroom, I
> got out of bed and put up a second pair on a 75 metre cable run
> (that's dedication). It's just as well, as everything is silent
> tonight.
>
> Squirrels was my first thought once I'd eliminated owls on my distant
> mics. They have been very quiet this year and last year they dominated
> my recordings. They were in tall conifers and broadleaf and moved
> about quite quickly, later shifting into the deep woodland and away
> from my second pair but I could still hear them. The background was a
> grain mill about a mile away which unfortunately happened to be in
> line with the very directional MKH-816 mics. At dawn I also picked up
> a farm radio half a mile across the valley.
>
> 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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