Nature Done Wright

    One of the nifty aspects of the screech-cam that I tend to take for granted is the audio.

  But to listen to Mrs. Ace while you watch her can give a totally different dimension to what you see.

  Now that Mrs. Ace is clearly incubating nearly 23 hours a day, most of the images of her seen through the monitor are pretty static.

  But in the evening, if you turn up the sound, you can hear Mrs. Ace calling — often at intervals of 10 seconds or so.

The call is a now-familiar whinny.

   Every so often, in the distance, you can hear Mr. Ace make a drumming noise in return.

   The other night, I was able to record a short duet — as Mr. Ace flew up to the nesting box and stuck his head in the opening for an instant.

   If he dropped off food — and that’s why I figure Mrs. Ace was calling — he didn’t drop off much.

   But the interlude did provide a few seconds of audio, beginning with Mrs. Ace whinnying and ending with Mr. Ace making a drumming noise and his mate responding.

   Here is the audio  Duet 0411.WMA

   Note: The audio is a Real Media file. I am trying to use a different format so that people with Macs can listen as well. In the meantime, my apologies.