Tag Archives: birdsong

The loudest tweet

Woken at 4am, angry and stumbling, I managed to grab the Sennheiser mic and handheld recorder and immortalised the song of this soon-to-be-ex Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos). I am now surfing for an air rifle. Do people still surf the … Continue reading

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Ludwig Koch

Radio 4 have just broadcast a programme about Ludwig Koch – the first person apparently to bring us recordings of birdsong. Listen
Read more about Ludwig at WSRS

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A very dawn chorus

Lazy country birds. I’m sure they start up at around 4am here in the town, but last night I stayed up and drove to Dry Sandford Pit at 3.30am, as you do, and sat for an hour waiting for my … Continue reading

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Brecon weekend

Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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“http://www.alunward.co.uk/marathon/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf”,
“nazdravemp3_player”, “300″, “20″, “8″, “#FFFFFF”);
so.addVariable(“file”, “/media/audio/brecon220309.mp3″);

so.write(“nazdravemp3_2″);

A weekend of filming, recording and running. Very chuffed with myself as I managed to run up Pen y Fan, something I’ve wanted to do for years. … Continue reading

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Those lovely starlings

Last weekend was spent with oodles of cable, cameras and microphones, and at last some of the results are emerging. You’ll need a pretty recent version of the Flash Player to view this video below [technical details follow]
H.264 encoded for … Continue reading

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Starlings in stereo and a run

Go get Adobe Flash Player!

var so = new SWFObject(
“http://www.alunward.co.uk/marathon/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf”,
“nazdravemp3_player”, “300″, “20″, “8″, “#FFFFFF”);
so.addVariable(“file”, “/media/audio/starlings.mp3″);

so.write(“nazdravemp3_3″);

Thanks to OFVM, who’ve granted me their Midas award, I’ve been out and about this weekend filming and recording with some quite nice gear. Most of the … Continue reading

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