Microphone windshield - If your budget allows fit a windshield to stop extraneous wind noise, it’s surprising how even a gentle breeze can ruin a recording.A tripod - Helps to avoid handling noise from touching the recorder, doesn’t need to be anything special, even a table top one will do as you are recording a wide area.Your recorder – For this I’m using the rather sexy LS-P4 however the principal is the same for all, including the LS-P5.You could just carry an LS-P1 or 4 with you and you will achieve a lovely sound but just a few cheap additions will help improve the sound even further, some you may already have: Even though they are nifty little machines they record to the highest of standards. You may just be a ‘dabbler’ (you can’t get arrested for dabbling) or something more serious, such as recording better quality audio for video, whatever your reason the Olympus/OM SYSTEM digital recorders, just like their cameras, are so small and lightweight that you can just pop them in your bag or pocket. You can also use recordings for ambience in videos or slightly off topic, you could use them for music production, just check out the Kate Bush’s Aerial album track, ‘Aerial Tal’ for feathery ambience and bird/human duetting. It’s another reason to get out into nature especially if the light is not playing ball for photography and any addition to your knowledge base will only help. I don’t profess to be a bird call expert, in fact I’m rubbish but what little I know has certainly helped and also made walks so much more enjoyable. No matter how many times I’ve played back a bird call on an app or media, it has very rarely stayed in the memory bank and it was only upon seeing the bird and its song re-united that it stuck. If you are a wildlife photographer, knowing your bird calls can alert you to subjects long before you have eyes on them and recording is a great way to improve your identification skills. Like me, you may have endured an early morning alarm call to hear the magical dawn chorus or maybe watched a tiny but powerful lunged wren singing at the top of its voice, such wonderful things worthy of recording for posterity. There are many different reasons to record our feathered friends: It’s thought that some birds do sing for enjoyment and I think that’s a lovely thought. The next few weeks are as vocal as our feathery friends become, singing away to either ward off would be rivals, either for territory or mating rights. It’s not only one chorus day of course, our avian arias have been gradually building to a crescendo since the start of the year and carry on until the mating season has stopped in the summer. Have you thought about recording them for future playback at your leisure or improving your video audio? As many have found, spending time watching and listening to birds is a total joy and a tonic to your mental health imagine them as your feathered psychotherapists but without the cost. Dawn Chorus Day’, that magnificently magical melodic awakening that is so worth experiencing even if it’s only the once.
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