Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 08:45:23 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Re: Birdsong sound effect in theater In-Reply-To: <003601c2aa84$da1e0280$957021a2@dlgiebler> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit That's why I always like to watch some of the British "mystery" series like Inspector Morse or Sherlock Holmes. When they are at some old pile of a house in the evening, you hear Little Owl. During the day, you enjoy Robin, Willow Warbler, Blackbird and Song Thrush, all typical birds of the area. When I was at Maryland Sea Grant, our video person was making a public service video for preserving wetlands. He had selected some bird songs (from a tape) to add into the background and wanted my opinion. Unfortunately the ones he had chosen were White-throated Sparrow (for a summer Maryland marsh?), Wood Thrush and Robin. I put my foot down and he ended up with Swamp Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird (of which he had footage -- I don't know what bird song he planned to "dub" in for this -- the mind boggles) and Yellow Warbler! Gail Mackiernan Silver Spring MD gail@mdsg.umd.edu on 12/23/2002 8:11 AM, Scott Crabtree at crabtree@MYSHORELINK.COM wrote: > I was watching "Braveheart" the other night, and when William Wallace > returned to the old homestead in the "Hee-lands," the solitude of the > moment was broken by the song of a...."Grasshopper Sparrow!" > > No doubt the "twitchers" were clamoring to get in to the filming site! > > Scott Crabtree > Chester, MD > crabtree@myshorelink.com > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================