Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:06:10 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Bicknell's Thrush in Davidsonville, Anne Arundel County, MD In-Reply-To: <000701bfbe59$639773e0$7e8e13cf@bcpl.net.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Steve - Thanks for the great tips on recordings. I never really considered myself to be in the bird vocalization recording business until Sunday, but now I guess "I are one". My basic handheld tape recorder doesn't even have a mic input jack on it. (This recorder actually used to belong to George Jett, but that's another story ...) I think I'll go ahead and get the basic equipment you suggest and throw it into the Jeep, "just in case" (If I get any more "just in case" stuff, I may need to upgrade my vehicle to a Club Van ...). Who knows, I may need to make a recording some day to prove to the MD/DC records committee I really did see find an Audubon's Warbler vs. a Myrtle ... or a Nutting's Flycatcher rather than an Ash-throated ... Phil At 06:36 AM 05/15/2000 -0400, Steve Sanford wrote: >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. ================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================