Friday 15 January 2016

Friday at the Flicks - A Seed Dish of Starlings

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Winter has arrived at last. By teatime yesterday it started to snow, wet stuff at first which melted as it landed but eventually we ended up with a thin covering and by this morning the pools of water in the lane were frozen over:

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When we got back from our early morning jaunt I topped up the seed feeders.
I wasn't a bit surprised when the brat pack invaded the seed dish on the bird table:



At last I have managed to be able to record live sound along with the video.
The harsh cackle at the end of the first clip is the sound of a Magpie.

7 comments:

  1. Not bad sound at all. An expensive job feeding starlings sunflower seeds.

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  2. Adrian: It's the sort of wireless microphone system broadcasters use. There is some noise which I am trying to cure.

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    1. John if you take a five second sample and highlight it in Audacity it will get rid of it for you.

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    2. Adrian: I must find out how to do that. To me most of the 'noise' sounds like a dry or bad joint somewhere.

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  3. Manners! Starlings do have a social hierarchy though, wonder how it applies here.

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    1. Simon: About 10 minutes before I started recording there was one which was driving all the others away. I guess the group I filmed were the at the bottom of the pecking order.

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  4. We had frost but no snow John.
    The starlings must have thought it was their birthdays.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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