{"id":625,"date":"2010-07-21T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2011-06-14T06:59:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T06:59:41","slug":"sing-a-song-of-sixpence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/sing-a-song-of-sixpence","title":{"rendered":"Sing a song of sixpence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I grow older I&#8217;m finding that, alongside the generalist birdwatching that we usually do with clients, my own birding interests are becoming increasingly specialised; seawatching (when I can find the time&#8230;) still excites me as much as the first time I sat on Flamborough Head, raptors have been an obsession since I was very young and, more recently, I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time reading about moult strategies and studying bird songs and calls.\u00a0 The Sound Approach books\u00a0have all been incredibly inspirational and then,\u00a0during the winter, I was on a survey trip for the Northeast Cetacean Project and Tim Sexton was mentioning how he&#8217;d added sound files to his blog posts.\u00a0 As we both use the same model of mp3 recorder, and the whole process sounded easy,\u00a0I thought I&#8217;d give it a go.\u00a0 I&#8217;d got an external shotgun mic that was included when I last bought a camcorder, so I connected that up and started pointing it at anything that was singing.\u00a0\u00a0I added the relevant plugins to the blog&#8230;couldn&#8217;t make it work.\u00a0 Tim gave me some helpful advice&#8230;still couldn&#8217;t make it work.\u00a0 Finally, I tried another way of adding sound files and here&#8217;s the first (of many&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/audio\/Blackbird.mp3\">https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/audio\/Blackbird.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Blackbird was singing from the top of the Apple tree in our garden during a heavy shower in late April and, when he stopped singing and listened to the other Blackbirds (which can be heard faintly in the background), he tilted his head, depending on which other bird he was listening to.\u00a0 We even have a client who asked for a recording of a Blackbird for an arts project he&#8217;s involved in.\u00a0 Who can blame him, it really is a beautiful song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I grow older I&#8217;m finding that, alongside the generalist birdwatching that we usually do with clients, my own birding interests are becoming increasingly specialised; seawatching (when I can find the time&#8230;) still excites me as much as the first time I sat on Flamborough Head, raptors have been an obsession since I was very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,5,321,104],"tags":[133,324,322,323],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","category-sound-recordings","category-surveys","tag-blackbird","tag-moult-strategies","tag-seawatching","tag-sound-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}