Saturday, July 25, 2009

And now, a special treat



Do I spoil you guys or what?

This is Glaring Baby: the movie. At 34 and 48 seconds you can hear Threatening Baby calling back, and if you listen carefully, at 21 seconds you can hear another call which I believe is the parent. I never did find the parent once it went cryptic, but that call came repeatedly and from the direction the parent had taken. It's not what you expect from an adult owl, but you have to realize that the hooting of owls, like most bird sounds we're used to hearing, is actually adult subject matter. Those loud calls are talking about territory and sex. Talking to their young, birds use different language, just like we do.

The more I read about and watch birds, the more we're not all that different from them.

The annoying humming sound in the video is, of course, mosquitoes, and believe me, it was not at all easy to keep the camera shake down to this level for 1:15 with mosquitoes all over me. Considering also that this is in 24X zoom, I did fairly well, I think.

So yeah. I hope you enjoyed this, because I shot it on purpose for you guys.

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