Kyle-

Nice wren recording! Best wishes with the woodcreepers - we look
forward to reports of your experiences.

Good recording,
Randy
--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "owlsperch"
<owlsperch@...> wrote:
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> Fellow recordists,
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> Great to read that you are all out and still recording! It's
especially nice to see that Laurent and Leslie have stayed friends
and are out recording on their travels. Did anyone make it out to see
Scott Sherk's show in N.Y? It's also wonderful to think of Edward out
recording elephants in Africa. I am hopeful that there will be a
recording course in an international location to draw some of us back
to reunite sometime in the near future.
> I've been recording here in Northern California and some in N.W
Nevada for the past year and a half and passionately working towards
producing a commercial CD which has been allot of fun recording
except for knowing that I will have to spend countless hours at the
computer mixing it all down. That is the hard part for me. I have
also donated recordings to a few musicians that are using the cuts on
their Cd's to add ambiance. One particular CD is going to be
childrens songs so the sounds of crickets, frogs and birds fits right
in. In the mean time, I got a call from Greg Budney three weeks ago
and he lined me up with a trip to the Amazonas region of Southern
Venezuela (all expenses paid) recording Woodcreepers with Curtis
Marantz for six weeks. It is through a grant funded by NSF ( National
Science Foundation) and we will be exploring the remote headwater
reaches of the Orinoco River and spending all six weeks on a boat
sleeping in hammocks. It sounds very challenging but Greg shared that
Curtis is the one of the most active scientists doing neotropical
bird research in the world right now and it will be an opportunity to
learn ALLOT. Curtis explained that we will be going out into the
jungle in the dark each morning at 4:00am and that the birds are
usually 30 meters up in the canopy. He said that there will be ample
time to record whatever else I want during the remainder of the day
and there are approximately 600 species that can be found in our
general area. In short, I'm PSYCHED and busily preparing to leave
here in two weeks.
> Just like Monica, I am eager to see some changes in the white
office and would like to see more focus on alternative energy
resources, reversing global warming, universal healthcare, and less
of a focus on global imperialism. Just hand me that ballot too!
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> Happy New Year to you all!
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> Ps: The above attachment is a little tidbit from this past
spring out in the forest near my house. It's a Winter Wren and was
recorded at 5:35 am, with a Telinga stereo mic with a Parbolic Dish,
Nagra Ares bb+ recorder, approx 10 yds from the subject. Background
species are Wrentit and Spotted Towhee. It took me two weeks to
finally get the elusive little bugger !
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Best wishes to everyone,
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Kyle Keegan
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