1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at Boyne, mussel diggers. Contains gulls and splashes and after a while oystercatchers as men dig for mussels. Shovelling the mussels; sorting the mussels, starts with shovelling, two takes; rake and splashing into water and dredging; sorting mussels with oystercatchers in background and then single gull and then more gulls; bee in jar buzzing, very good. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
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1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at Boyne, mussel diggers. Chough - call notes male and female (1'25"); Chough, call of adults (1'), feeding calls of very young (50"); Alpine Chough, recorded in Spain (51"). Recordings received from BBC; bees buzz, loop made from flies whine and hum (3'). Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains Sedge Warbler; Reed Warbler; Great Reed Warbler, not in Ireland; Reed Bunting; Davis Warbler; Marsh Warbler; Cormorant, inland lake atmosphere; Spoonbill; Purple Heron; Heron; Icterine Warbler; Blackbird; Song Thrush; Golden Oriole; Little Owl. Éamon notes the record "must have been buried in a sandpit!!'. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded in Conamara. Contains starlings recorded in Conamara, very good; Horses galloping; chatter at Connamara Pony Show; flies hum/whine loop. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Stable FX recorded at Toss Taaffe stable for "Amuigh Faoin Speir", tape 1. Contains stable yard, several horses walking; trot off; distant walk and approach; galloping several horse on grass, windy; slow canter on grass. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Stable FX recorded at Toss Taaffe stable for "Amuigh Faoin Speir", tape 2. Contains horses (two) on roadway exercising; jumping on grass; stable yard. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Stable FX recorded at Toss Taaffe stable for "Amuigh Faoin Speir", tape 3. Contains horses gallop on grass, good; runaway horse. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
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.
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.