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		<title>Dusk at Dawlish Warren</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This recording was made at dusk, on the edge of the Bight, a shallow area of tidal water on the inland side of Dawlish Warren NNR. The 23-minute long  clip covers a period from just after sunset until twilight - the original was several minutes longer, however I have removed sections where railway/aircraft/road noise became [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2010/03/02/dusk-at-dawlish-warren/</link>
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		<title>The Big Freeze</title>
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Snowy Fields, originally uploaded by pterodaktyl.

The cold weather covering the whole of the UK (see here for a great view from space) has made itself felt even here on the usually mild south coast. This is the view looking west from the edge of Dawlish.
1000s of Redwing (Turdus iliacus) and Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) have descended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2010/01/08/the-big-freeze/</link>
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		<title>Long-winged Coneheads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been hearing these crickets calling since August, but it was only the other day that I managed to get a look at one and actually identify the species.
I can hear the call very clearly, even over background noise like traffic, but all the people I've pointed it out to have had to listen for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2009/09/28/long-winged-coneheads/</link>
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		<title>Great Green Bush-crickets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These Great Green Bush-crickets (Tettigonia viridissima) were calling in bramble scrub at Dawlish Warren NNR just after sunset on a warm August evening.
They're very hard to track down as there are so many singing at once that it's almost impossible to zero in on one individual. When you do get up close to one the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2009/08/11/great-green-bush-crickets/</link>
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		<title>Foghorn</title>
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Last night was damp and foggy, and a ship anchored off the coast was sounding its horn - the first time I've ever heard this from the house.
Recorded with a Sennheiser K6/ME66 microphone and an Olympus LS-10 recorder. Filtered in Cubase LE to remove noise and boost low frequencies.
Foghorn
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		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2009/08/05/foghorn/</link>
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		<title>Tornado</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not the weather event, but the first main-line steam locomotive built in Britain for 48 years!

For more information on this incredible project, have a look at the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust's website.
In this recording, No. 60163 Tornado bursts out of Kennaway Tunnel onto the sea wall at Dawlish, whistling to the spectators who have gathered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2009/07/12/tornado/</link>
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		<title>Whitethroat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recorded on a breezy day at Warren Point in Dawlish Warren NNR. For the first few minutes of the recording the bird is singing in the distance. It then makes a short song flight near the microphone, falls silent for a minute and then sings close by.
20090520_whitethroat
Recorded with a Sennheiser K6/ME66 microphone and an Olympus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2009/05/20/whitethroat/</link>
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		<title>Nightingales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend we visited family near Gloucester. Their house is about a mile from the RSPB reserve at Highnam Woods, a breeding site for Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos).
It's over ten years since the one and only time I'd heard a Nightingale, and that was just a few brief snatches of song from a hedgerow in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2009/05/18/nightingales/</link>
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		<title>Willow Warbler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I picked up a Sennheiser ME66/K6 combo at a bargain price on eBay. The ME66 is a short shotgun microphone capsule, which fits onto the K6 power unit. The K6 runs off 48v phantom power or from a single AA battery, meaning the microphone can be used with any of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2009/04/25/willow-warbler/</link>
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		<title>Dawlish Warren Pond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was recorded at around 06:45 this morning, after a failed attempt at dawn chorus recording. Possibly the fact that it was the coldest night for several weeks had put the birds off, as there was virtually no song in the woodland surrounding this small pond at Dawlish Warren NNR. At least the waterfowl did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pterodaktyl.co.uk/2009/03/21/dawlish-warren-pond/</link>
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