Erik,
This sounds like a Common Moorhen. They do a variety of muffled clucks like
that.
best,
Michael O'Brien
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Andrew,
The first call is a Virginia Rail. Check out Lang Elliott's Stokes Eastern
Birds CD for I nice example of this call, which is apparently given by females.
I can't quite make out the second call on your recording, but it doesn't sound
like a cuckoo to me.
best,
Michael O'Brien
Hi everyone,
I was messing around with a Sennheiser mic directly plugged into my
laptop April 4. Recordings were obviously soft without the help of a
preamp, but discernible. I was mostly just trying to test my ear
against the instant gratification of inspecting the sonogram and
comparing to
http://soundcloud.com/user3781125/4apr10-lewes
The first one is the one that I thought sounded Willow Flycatcher=ish.
Also, not sure about the second one - kind of sounds like a Cuckoo -
but that would also be pretty early.
Any better ID's?
Sincerely,
Andrew
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:03 AM,
Hi all,
I got a lot of questions about the Blue Icicle. Sorry I should have
explained what it was! It is a mic preamp that is powered via the USB
voltage (5v). It is nice as when mounted close to the microphone it reduced
the noise in the line caused by a long run of an unbalanced XLR or other
what is blue icicle?
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David,
I also use the MP-13 on many of my setups, but like I had talked to you
about, with the blue icicle you can elimanate a lot of the noise associated
with the traditional EK3029c setup by placing in near the microphone. The
Evans style mics are not balanced and unless they are built special
and my response was: when we did dawn surveys of Cape Sable seaside sparrow,
on a still morning we could hear them at least to 500m (~1500ft), while on a
day with a little wind blowing the sound towards us (~5ks?) we would pick
them up out to over 1km (> ~3000ft). Interestingly (and to my
Hi All,
We do occasionally pick up robins on some of our recordings, but they are
few and far between in the night hours (pre 3am) and that is on well over
20k hours of recordings here and in the Appalachians. I tend to hear many
more from 3-5am. However, on several occasions here I have observed
This reminds me of a question Dave LaPuma and I were knocking around the
other day. How high can birds making nfc's be heard by naked ear? By
microphone? Has this been worked out? Of course it is conditions-specific,
so for starters how about a still night and a loudish call, like SWTH?
I have always used the Rolls MP13 and have found it very reliable and
durable.
Jeff
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Maybe but you would think that under certain conditions with low cloud cover,
etc., that over the years I would have picked them up. Maybe it is one of those
things that happens more often late and early in the year when I am not
recording as much…..
Jeff
From: Michael O'Brien
Jeff,
I've heard Common Tern at night once in southeastern Pennsylvania well
away from water (so clearly migrating). This was in spring, probably
May.
On the robin front, in addition to coastal movements, I've heard them
in Ithaca while circulating over the lights of the football stadium
here
Hey All-
A group of us in Cape May are going to be building some personal recording
setups in the next week(s). I'm interested in what others are using in their
personal setups, especially the mic element (we're ordering the Knowles
EK3029c, but I noticed that Knowles is making several new(?)
Maybe the robins over your station are typically too high to be heard in the
middle of the night. Just a thought.
Re terns, I have also only herd Caspian. I have heard them both spring in and
fall inland, but I don't recall ever hearing them along the coast.
Michael
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The BNA for American Robin entry implies that robins do migrate occasionally
at nighttime (which is what I learned in ornithology back in the 70s--that
they're like Canada Geese in that they can migrate whenever they darned-well
feel like it). BNA says, "Migrating in flocks primarily during the
Seems amazingly early to me but on Monday night my automated nocturnal
flight call set-up at my house picked up a Virginia Rail passing over.
Jeff Wells
Gardiner, Maine
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Very cool! Makes sense when you see large numbers of robins flying over in the
early morning hours that they would be birds that have been moving at night.
Funny though that over the years I don’t recall picking up any within the 10
PM-2 AM window that I think of as indicating birds moving
Jeff,
I'm interested in your assertion that American Robin is strictly a diurnal
migrant. Perhaps that is true in some areas, but in Cape May it certainly is
not. We regularly see massive American Robin flights at night, in fall at
least. These flights often continue or resume in the first
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