ML64575981
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Call; Flight call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Editing with Audacity: Normalized to -3; High Pass filter 250. Unsure whether some of this audio is considered flight song, but calls were made while stationary and in flight. It seemed to be a family so adults and juveniles were calling.
Observation details
Before the audio started, three Merlin flew into a large, approximately 100 ft, cottonwood tree about 30 ft from the road. Then two silently flew off. As the audio starts, the remaining Merlin calls and after that distant calls of the other two can be heard. Later, the calls become louder as two flew towards the cottonwood which the other one left, so three of them are circled at tree height and calling together at the end of the audio. Meanwhile, a fourth was seen a bit further away. All four flew into tall aspen trees a little further down the road. Suspect there were two adults and two juveniles.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Zoom H6
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKE600 Shotgun
- Accessories
- Homemade windscreen
- Original file size
- 44.08 MB