For night listening, my old iPhone outside the bedroom window does a good job, as it’s quite sensitive (after all, this is the mic that Merlin uses). Last night it treated me to crickets, a Barred Owl, and a coyote chorus. Feed the output to a second device running Merlin and detect the night birds! Then there all the daytime bird sounds…
The next step for me is probably not to get a different mic, but rather to devise a weatherproof enclosure for the phone, which I can place away from the house for a more omnidirectional listening experience. I’m happy to run an extension cord for this purpose, or tap into one of those that I already have running out to the garden shed, the chicken coop and the workshop. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
