Date: 6/22/25 11:32 am From: Paula Hansley <plhansley...> Subject: [cobirds] Re: Merlin’s microphone…
Another factor: how clean is the microphone on your iPhone! Someone at
Front Range Birding in Boulder cleaned my phone’s microphone with a
toothpick. After that cleaning , Merlin was a lot more accurate!
I must admit that I didn’t even know where the microphone was on my iPhone
and had never cleaned it!
Paula
On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM Robert Righter <rorighter...>
wrote:
> Thank you Paula for a very important observation about bird sound
>
> Merlin is no different than our ears. If a bird is at a distant it can
> sound different than being up close. This is also is true if a birds is
> facing away from you the same result as being far away. Also birds like the
> Chat are extremely variable in how in they say it., Factor in distance,
> wind, direction, and air density and lot of other variables, it can be
> tricky. The Spotted Towhee is common around the house. If I didn’t know
> how common they are, my yard list would be much larger than it is now
>
> Bob Righter
> Denver,CO
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