Night owl activities
Apr. 10th, 2008 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoRained all day, sometimes quite hard. Still raining now.
Picked up a friend and drove to Crystal Lake this evening for an Audubon meeting, not something I normally do but they had a speaker from the Illinois Ornithological Society on "Birding by Ear" (identifying birds solely by the sounds they make) and I wanted to hear what he had to say. He was quite interesting, actually, and brought some recorded examples so he could talk about what to listen for, and what's harder and what's easier. He ended with a brief video from a nature show of an Australian Lyrebird imitating other birds, like a Kookaburra for instance, and then various man-made sounds, such as the shutter of a camera, the film rewinding, and loggers using chainsaws and handsaws. It was amazingly accurate.
The meeting was at a nature center I haven't been in before, and there were a lot of exhibits more or less aimed at school kids but I found the live animals interesting and even the mounted specimens were surprisingly diverse.
Drove home in fog and drizzle, slowly.
And I have to go to sleep...
Picked up a friend and drove to Crystal Lake this evening for an Audubon meeting, not something I normally do but they had a speaker from the Illinois Ornithological Society on "Birding by Ear" (identifying birds solely by the sounds they make) and I wanted to hear what he had to say. He was quite interesting, actually, and brought some recorded examples so he could talk about what to listen for, and what's harder and what's easier. He ended with a brief video from a nature show of an Australian Lyrebird imitating other birds, like a Kookaburra for instance, and then various man-made sounds, such as the shutter of a camera, the film rewinding, and loggers using chainsaws and handsaws. It was amazingly accurate.
The meeting was at a nature center I haven't been in before, and there were a lot of exhibits more or less aimed at school kids but I found the live animals interesting and even the mounted specimens were surprisingly diverse.
Drove home in fog and drizzle, slowly.
And I have to go to sleep...
