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Month: November 2024

Red-shouldered Hawk – Birdsongs

Published on November 29, 2024

Red-shouldered Hawk – Photo, Call, and Recording Notes

Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)

Primary Bird:  Red-shouldered Hawk, Buteo lineatus
Date and Time:  September 2, 2024, 6:53 AM CST
Location:  Outdoor Wilderness Learning Center, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA
Sound Snippet:  78 seconds
Microphone:  Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic
Recorder:  Zoom F3
Position:  Recording of a Red-shouldered Hawk’s first calls of the morning on 9/2/2024 as it flew above the larger OWL Center pond.
Audio Processing:  Lightly processed with Audacity 3.7.0 on 2021 MacBook Pro. High Pass Filter 800Hz at 12 dB Roll-off, Low Pass Filter 10kHz at 12 dB Roll-off, and 2-second fades in and out.

Northern Mockingbird – Birdsong

Published on November 27, 2024

Northern Mockingbird – Birdsongs and Recording Notes

1. Northern Mockingbird

Primary Bird:  Northern Mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos
Date and Time:  April 16, 2024, 5:08 AM CST
Location:  Lawn, Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA
Sound Snippet:  197 seconds
Microphone:  Apple iPhone 8+ microphone
Recorder:  Apple iPhone 8+ and Merlin Bird ID
Position:  Lawn recording of a single Mockingbird on a limb at the top of a fig tree, the first birdsong of the day, at 5:08 AM on 04/16/2024 with
Audio Processing:  Recorded with Merlin Bird ID on Apple iPhone 8+. Processed with Audacity 3.7.0 on 2021 MacBook Pro. High Pass Filter 1000Hz at 24 dB Roll-off, 2-second fades in and out.
Other Birds in Recording: Purple Martin, Progne subis, softly.

Tufted Titmouse – Birdsongs

Published on November 25, 2024

1. Tufted Titmouse – Photo, Birdsong and Recording Notes

Tufted Titmouse on Bradford Pear
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Primary Bird:  Tufted Titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor
Date and Time:  May 5, 2024, 5:00 PM CST
Location:  Lawn, Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA
Sound Snippet:  121 seconds
Microphone:  Sennheiser ME-66
Recorder:  Zoom F3
Position:  This is a mono recording of a Tufted Titmouse calling from a tree on the wooded edge of a lawn on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 5:00 PM. Skies were partly cloudy, and temp was 78F.
Audio Processing:  Recorded with a Sennheiser ME-66 microphone and a Zoom F3 recorder. 32-bit float audio was processed with Audacity by normalized at -3.0dB, an Apple EQ configuration designed for the site was applied, followed by a Low Pass Filter at 18Khz/12dB, with five-second fades in and out.
Other Birds in Recording: Carolina Wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis

Common Nighthawk – Birdsongs

Published on November 25, 2024

1. Common Nighthawk – Birdsong and Recording Notes

Primary Bird:  Common Nighthawk, Chordeiles minor
Date and Time:  September 29, 2023, 6:29 AM CST
Location:  Lawn, Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA
Sound Snippet:  69.2 seconds
Microphone:  Handheld K1 mic with parabolic reflector
Recorder:  Apple iPhone 8+
Position:  During the first 30 seconds, unseen in the dark, the Common Nighthawk is in a tree on the far side of a clearing about 180 feet distant. Then, during an 8-second silence, the bird flies to a tree further into the woods making the last 30 seconds quieter.
Audio Processing:  Recorded with Merlin Bird ID on iPhone 8+, using a handheld K1 mic with parabolic reflector, and edited with OcenAudio. Clipped from longer track, normalized -3dB, highpass filter at 2,015 Hz, 40 dB rolloff/decade, passband attenuation 3dB.

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