{"id":3117,"date":"2014-06-24T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T09:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2014-08-22T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:28:32","slug":"behind-the-scenes-at-oxwich-nnr-images-and-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=3117","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes at Oxwich NNR – images and recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In my last post on Barn Owls at Oxwich NNR, I mentioned trying to record the wildfowl on the reserve. Unfortunately road noise or the sound of the pump that seems to regulate the water height spoils most recordings, but I did get a few short excerpts that are useable. The Gadwall were gathering around the hide at times and would congregate together and then make the sounds you can hear below.<\/p>\n

Gadwall<\/a><\/p>\n

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The hide windows limit your field of view vertically, so when playing with the longer lenses, I normally concentrated on the far bank or birds on the water. Birds in flight isn’t easy at the best of times, so with limited vertical motion, it was a bit of a no go area to try. The barn owl didn’t appear when the long lens was with me, so my sound recording photo kit of a 28 – 300mm lens with a 1.5x crop sensor camera was all I had to make the image of the barn owl in the last post.<\/p>\n

\"Oxwich<\/a><\/p>\n

Little Grebes make a fantastic sound in the breeding season and it travels quite a distance. It makes them sound very proud of their chosen mate with other pairs usually responding straight away with their own call.<\/p>\n

little grebe<\/a><\/p>\n

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The recording set up for both tracks was the same with two Sennhesier short shot gun microphones used in a stereo set up from one of the hide windows. The recording was then made on my Multi track recorder. As the microphones are very sensitive, keeping still proved a challenge as any slight shift of body weight on the stool could start the wooden floor creaking.<\/p>\n

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