βœ¨πŸŒ™Flacko's Blyth's reed warbler Journey 2026! πŸŒ™ ✨ 🎀🎢
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My journey to find as many blyth's reed warblers during the season and record them!
They arrive end of May and stop singing around June. They sing mainly at night.
I also share animations here about them, awesome audio clips of their cool parts in songs!
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Have to make sure he is still near recorder. I used Clippy just in case maybe there is interference as house is near
Oooooh i LOVE seeing this when you get niiice fat thick birdsong audio!! This is BRW24 audio. I hoped it would be loud as it was inside a bush and it amplified him a bit too. My headphones were on BRW23 area so I had to blindly guess and put the recorder on bunch of grass to stay still and Clippy Em272 on other branch facing toward a bird.

Can't be better than this. Just hope the BG sounds are not that loud.....
Each this pink ball is the noisy car passing by.... its so weird that this is around 300 meters away but DRAGS so long and also goes so high aswell with the sound.....
When cars pass by near the recorder, this lasts like 30 second max... ....HHHHHHHHHHhh............... done. No drag. But the far away cars seem to just draaaaaag the sound sooooooo loooong. 1 loudest part is 15 sec long which isnt too bad. Not much to lose when cutting.
The BRW23 audio. Ooooff at those loudest peaks on pic 1. Holy shit how long that 1 sound drags on 2nd pic. Almost 4 minutes and these were 470 meters away from me and STILL somehow able to do this high sound, almost touching the bird sounds 😒. Some other ones were shorter. 30 sec was the pinkiest part and other had it 1 minute.

Pic 3 - no car. This is the ideal I want. I can leave is the slight "hhh" sounds what arent the most pinkiest parts as that is the loudest sound. The other ones arent that agonizing as its faintly.
4th pic. Car.. car...
Pic 5 . Over 20 car sounds.. wtf you driving so late for anyway??? I counted the highest parts on the audio and that's how many spikes I got. These all have to be removed because its DISGUSTING SOUND. I know I can retry but this depends is the birds still there....
For example this is BRW18 audio. Maybe 1 or 2 cars passed by in 3 hours. I had the parts taken out and rest is just nice quiet on BG and bird sound is nice and loud. This is the ideal stuff I want and I got these 40 nights that quality. No idea what 41th night people did that they had to constantly drive around that late .___.; . There have been other fridays too and they werent that noisy either.

Reminds Jiidu from 2025 where 1st June people just KEPT DRIVING and 1h 58min of song became just 1h long because all of the other sounds were cars. Thankfully I got Jiidu 4 more times so I got my parts back like 4h lol
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If you wanna hear it.... 2minutes of agonizing car sound on BG.... doesn't sound nice at all :C. That's why I was fuming in the channel everytime the car passed by. It😬. sounds😬. like😬. This😬.

Bird was best quality as I was near it. Car is the noise pollution....

I can cut out the most offending 😑parts of the sound and leave the quieter parts in as the quieter hhhh sound is less offending than the loud one what just pierces through. There will be a lot of cuts of this audio but I mean.. GOOD news is i have over 2h 50 min of his song, I still will have plenty of left!
This is the Sanqui Tascam :). That was on the left side of the area and KΓ€rbes Tascam was inside the bush. I noticed this individual kept going between the bush and the left area what had bunch of burdocks around. I had Sanqui Tascam attached to one of the burdocks as the bird sang that place and faced it toward the kinda area it would land. As you can see he came back right that place! Went to the bush area again and flew back to the burdock area and sung there.

Veeeery slightly was interference heard on bg. This is like always a debuff and i never know where it would be. BRW6 had it faintly too but I didn't hear it on any other BRWs i recorded in that chunk. It is so weird how this interference is so random where it might just... exist... and if you are 10 meters away then there is no such sound.

Between houses you'd expect one to be but some places its not (Thampy area) but near Vuubiluuli area what was opposite side of graveyard had a reallly bad interference.
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This is very interesting! When blackbird sings, BRW becomes quiet temporaly. Sometimes it beeps while blackbird sings but when BRW stops his part, he is quiet and lets a blackbird sing and when blackbird stops, he continues

I first thought maybe blackbird was louder than him and makes BRW quieter and harder to hear.
I have to go out today and tomorrow as 22-24 will be Midsummer eve and then people gonna make way too much noise and there is no point going out then. Jiidu was recorded during Midsummer eve and his audio took 4-5 days to edit out the music on bg. Easier is to wait a calmer night and hope the bird still goes