Re: [cobirds] Another bird sound quiz

Ted probably knows a better way, but here's a simple way I have used to make half-way decent recordings of bird song.

I downloaded the app called Song Sleuth onto my smartphone.  It was designed for you to record a song and it would ID the bird from your recording.  I have found its ID skills wanting, but it makes decent recording files.  When I hear a bird I want to record, I go into the app and go through the motions of recording the sound as if for ID purposes.  I reject the ID offering of it usually, but I then use the 'share' option to e-mail the recording file to my personal e-mail address.   Back at home, I download the file from my e-mail and upload it into eBird.

Diana Beatty

El Paso County

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 8:59 AM Mary Kay Waddington <waddingtonmk@gmail.com> wrote:

Ted,

I love your bird quizzes and your accounts of what you've seen/heard!  You have admonished us to make more recordings.  I'd love to comply but don't have a clue how.  Could you give us a short tutorial on what hardware/software is best to use?

Oh, and my guess is Say's Phoebe.

Mary Kay Waddington

Englewood, Arapahoe County

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:22 PM Ted Floyd <tedfloyd73@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, folks. Alrighty, that last one was fun, er, "fun."

Here's a new one:

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/244160651

And another cut from the same bird:

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/244160711

You can hear several species in those two cuts, but the one I'm talking about is the slowly and rather steadily repeated whistle, falling in pitch a bit and wavering, uttered every 2-3 seconds. The bird vocalized like this for at least a minute at a time for much of the morning. Audio-recorded (and seen, so I know what it is) near the intersection of Lefthand Canyon Drive and Old Stage Road in Boulder County, yesterday, Wed., June 17.

Any takers?

Enjoy!

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

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