Bird song CD.

[mike from ebbw]

Hi everyone.This is my first foray into this thread so please bear with me!I am looking to attract birds to photograph by way of a portable CD player.Does anyone know where I could get hold of a CD with all of the british species of bird on.I am looking for something that has e.g.track one-blue tit,track two-blackcap etc.This is just so that I can skip tracks until I get to the species I want and press "repeat".Does any such disc exist or have I had too much malt this evening?(lol).Thanks,Mike.

[ermine]

I am looking to attract birds to photograph by way of a portable CD player.Does anyone know where I could get hold of a CD with all of the british species of bird on.I am looking for something that has e.g.track one-blue tit,track two-blackcap etc.This is just so that I can skip tracks until I get to the species I want and press "repeat".Does any such disc exist or have I had too much malt this evening?(lol).Thanks,Mike.

Plenty of such CDs exist. Before you invest, you may want to first consider reading

this

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=71205

and this

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=58405

to first get some background as to whether this is a good idea at all in the British countryside. Correctly using playback is not a question of getting a bird song clip on CD, sticking the deck on auto-repeat, and amping it up to the max, which is the sort of thing that the typical tyro does when his first attempt doesn't work. Pissing off birds, fellow birders and himself all in one go...

Many people get the idea this is a great idea after going on a foreign trip to some tropical location and seeing the tour leader use playback. The reason this works for the tour leader and won't automatically do the same for you are


the tour leader knows where the birds are likely to be, which is why you pay him

his sounds match the season and area,

he doesn't desensitize his targets by running half an hour on auto-repeat



All that is not to say that playback won't work in the UK - in the right conditions it will. Whether just getting better pictures is a good reason to do it is the issue since it is by definition invasive rather than observational.

[mike from ebbw]

Ooerr!It seems I have ventured into a sensitive subject.Excuse me whilst I tiptoe back to my usual threads (lol).

[foxwood]

Hi everyone.This is my first foray into this thread so please bear with me!I am looking to attract birds to photograph by way of a portable CD player.Does anyone know where I could get hold of a CD with all of the british species of bird on.I am looking for something that has e.g.track one-blue tit,track two-blackcap etc.This is just so that I can skip tracks until I get to the species I want and press "repeat".Does any such disc exist or have I had too much malt this evening?(lol).Thanks,Mike.

Hi Mike

Check out this website. You may find what you're looking for here ...

http://www.wildsounds.com/

Kind Regards

Mike