Hi Peter and all
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This is my first post to the group and I'm a newcomer to recording, so plea=
se don't judge my recordings too harshly!=C2=A0
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I'm fascinated by starlings, and=C2=A0 although I haven't made a recording =
of a large murmuration of starlings,=C2=A0=C2=A0I do have several recording=
s that I made last autumn in Richmond Park, Surrey of small preroosting flo=
cks and one of starlings in their roost.=C2=A0 They can be found on Sound C=
loud.
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https://soundcloud.com/frangipani24/flock-of-270-starlings
This is a recording taken from a distance, the birds were all gathering in =
the tops of a couple of adjacent trees,=C2=A0whistling and clicking togethe=
r.=C2=A0=C2=A0Every now and again=C2=A0they would quieten and then louden a=
gain.=C2=A0 They did take to the air=C2=A0 near the end of the recording, u=
nfortunately=C2=A0you can't hear the wing flaps.
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https://soundcloud.com/frangipani24/preroosting-starlings-in
In this recording=C2=A0I=C2=A0stood under the tree=C2=A0that the starlings=
=C2=A0were congregating in the top of.=C2=A0=C2=A0I was recording their usu=
al noises when suddenly they all=C2=A0took off; this time you can hear the =
flaps.
The synchronicity and=C2=A0rapidity of take-off within=C2=A0even small floc=
ks of starlings is awe-inspiring,=C2=A0 I wonder how it happens; is it a Me=
xican wave type of effect or is it signal led (perhaps by sound)?
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https://soundcloud.com/frangipani24/starlings-settling-down-to
Next all the starlings flew into dense suckers of a lime (Tilia)=C2=A0tree =
to roost.=C2=A0 It was amazing how quickly they disappeared from view.=C2=
=A0 On this recording I walked along to beneath their roost; I was expectin=
g them still to be making their usual noises, but they were mainly quiet ap=
art from some flaps of wings as they shuffled around=C2=A0before settling d=
own.=C2=A0 They did seem to flap more as I approached the tree=C2=A0and als=
o as other walkers came by, but they soon settled again.=C2=A0 (The beginni=
ng of this track is very poor, I knew even less about editing then than I d=
o now).
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I don't think=C2=A0starlings always go quiet straight away as they enter th=
eir roost.=C2=A0 Recently I noticed starlings in a roost=C2=A0in=C2=A0a den=
sely foliaged tree in a nearby=C2=A0town centre.=C2=A0=C2=A0These birds wer=
en't quiet but=C2=A0whistling and clicking loudly. (Perhaps this depends on=
light intensity).=C2=A0 Interestingly, none of the many shoppers passing b=
y noticed=C2=A0the starlings!
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I must apologise to those of you=C2=A0=C2=A0that might not =C2=A0like the d=
rone of the aeroplanes and other additional noises on these recordings, but=
I am experimenting=C2=A0with sounds of nature in an urban context,=C2=A0th=
ey're not there just because I lack editing skills!
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Regards
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Frances Cook
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"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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