RE: Maryland's first March Big Day (long)

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Dear Harriette,
Check out the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's Library of Natural
Sounds web site.
http://birds.cornell.edu/LNS/index.html
Be sure to checkout the equipment section.  Pay attention to the
microphone section too.

A good source of equipment is Stith Recording, also in Ithaca, NY.
http://www.stithrecording.com/
The Marantz 222 bird version ($432.00) is a good starting point for
analogue recording.  It is probably the cheapest recorder that you can
buy that will give acceptable results.  Coupled with a Sennheiser ME
($214.00) and K6 ($219.00) power module (series microphone you can get
great recordings.  I would recommend the ME66 short shotgun mic as a
starting point.  It will not give the sample amount of amplification as
a parabola but it is a whole lot more portable and much easier to aim.
So you see, that even a really basic system will cost around $865.00
If you have any more questions, please feel to write back,
Wil Hershberger

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