1/4 inch audio tape. Contains quiet atmosphere at Carton (ducks). FX recorded off "Listen: the birds" no 10 include Mallard, Godwall; Shoveler; Teal (beware chicks - cuckoo and skylark); Wigeon (+ whooper swans), Pochard, Shelduck, Canada Goose, Mute Swan (nasal sounds), Whooper Swan, Little Grehe (Dab chick) very good, Red-throated Diver (not on tape). Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
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1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded on the Dargle River as a heavy flow off a weir; from Carton Estate there is a pheasant run; gamekeeper whistling; FX of peasant's running; ducks in duck run; catching drakes; feeding flock of ducks taking off. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at Carton Estate. Contains catching of drakes; at lakeside at Carton with noisy drakes; drakes being released; feeding bantams; ducks in pond and distant voices and dog; rookery at Enniskerry. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded in Connemara. Contains meeting Stiophan; Donkey, short; conversation about hawk for TV; rook and jackdaws (short); starlings twittering and rooks; Peregrine Falcon screaming and then feeding call; hen harrier alarm call; conversation with Stiophán and Bartley about old items and seaweed. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recording of catching oysters in Fenit. Contains trawler tick-over in harbour prior to departure; small boat approaches mike; large trawler pulling out form quay wall; large trawler underway with wash; and continue with other trawler passes by; several boats underway to oyster beds; wash of single trawler under way and motorl winching in oyster dredge complete sequence, sorting shellfish etc; sorting shellfish and emptying tray into sea; cleaning spat off oysters; hauling in trawl (dredge) again; throwing dredge back over (splash etc.); engine tick over and general atmosphere on board (some voices). Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recording of catching oysters in Fenit. Contains diesel launch motor slow; sorting shellfish close up; throwing in tray-load of shells; bailiff putting up alongside; pulling away in currach and tick over; approaching small group of boats; Colm Duggan 1-1 sync, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, wild track; choppy sea lapping on ramp; Colm Duggan 4-1 sync; Colm Duggan wild track to cover "corrugated plastic sequence"; onboard motor in distance. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at Shannon River, Athlone. Contains outboard and wash; outboard only; Black-headed gull colony, good; lake atmosphere, Roundwood; Rossaveal lobster boat casting off and heading out to sea; diesel constant run; meeting small lobster boat. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded in Conamara (continuation of previous tape); Contains putting out 20 pots; pulling alongside harbour; rowing to Oilean na nGeabhrog"; tern colony (common); tern click, beware voice near beginning; amhran while rowing back home. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded in Conamara (continuation of previous tape); Contains small lobster boat (common kind); pulling out from Carraroe; diesel constant run and wash; picking up marker buoy and hauling up pots on winch; breaking up crab for bait. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded in Conamara (continuation of previous tape); Contains fishermen conversing by shouting above engine noise (Carraroe); Heron: quiet lake atmosphere with heron; Heron, whirring of wings in flight; Estuary sounds made up off discs: with curlew, redshank and oystercatcher. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.