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MP3 and Lake Crabtree



If you're talking for playing calls to elicit a response, I'd stick with
a single easy-to-carry unit, which basically means (AFAIK) a standard
CD/tape player of the small "boombox" variety - most of the MP3 players
I've seen are essentially meant to fill the "Walkman" niche of the
market, that is to say small handheld units with minimal amplification,
really suitable only for use with headphones.  I could be wrong, of
course (as always).

obOntopiccontent:

I spent my lunchtime getting in my first birding in weeks at Lake
Crabtree Park near RDU airport.  I didn't have my scope, so the large
rafts at the far side of the lake remained mysteries to me, the only
waterbirds close enough to identify were several Coots near the shore
and a few soaring Ring-billed Gulls.  A very pleasant and leisurely walk
through the woods yielded up my first Winter Wren of the season, along
with one decent-sized wintering flock of the usual suspects: Chickadees,
Titmice, and seemingly healthy numbers of both Kinglets.  A few Carolina
Wrens and White-throated Sparrows were scattered in the underbrush.

Not a huge number of birds, all in all, but a beautiful day nonetheless,
and birding beats working anyday...

-Sandy

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Sandy Cash
Durham, NC
scash@mindspring.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert C. Perkins" <rperkins@infi.net>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: MP3 for Birders?


> I've been looking for a gadget to use for owling and for finding
> hard-to-see birds like rails.  I'd really like to be able to add owls
> to my totals for bird counts.
>
> Bob
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
> Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
> Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
> 910-630-7037     rperkins@methodist.edu