Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 06:36:10 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: Re: Bicknell's Thrush in Davidsonville, Anne Arundel County, MD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Phil, Thanks for the interesting personal info about your Bicknell's Thrush and the web site referral. Pete Webb and I were listening repeatedly to the Stokes tapes and maybe Peterson while driving around last year, and the differences seemed extremely subtle. Maybe the volume is the best clue (?). I've been wondering what to do in June. Maybe this will inspire me to head up to New Hampshire (or wherever to look for one). For your recording I don't know what kind of microphone you were using, if not the built in one, but I have found that using an "electret condenser" mike that you can get at radio shack for about $25 I think (and which requires a small battery) does a surprisingly good job of picking up bird sounds, even if they aren't real close or loud, and even if you use a very cheap recorder. This "electret" mike picks up more distant sounds much better than a none-electrified one. If you play it back on a real player and stereo, it sounds pretty much like the real outdoors. Or you can run a line from the recorder's external speaker or line out jack (if any) into your stereo's line-in jack, and it sounds almost as good. Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================