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TRANSCRIPT
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of December 17, 2012.
This week, we feature a year of mystery sounds. Have a listen for about 70 seconds to 12 sounds that you could hear from January to December in a Virginia water year.
SOUNDS.
Let’s see how many you recognized! The sounds were whales spouting; a Special Olympics “Polar Plunge”; Spring Peepers; an American Toad; a Red-winged Blackbird; a beaver’s tail-splat; a Belted Kingfisher; shorebirds and waves; a kayak paddler; the New River; Snow Geese; and a fog horn. I hope that your upcoming year is full of water-related sounds and many good things. Thanks to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the whale and shorebird sounds, and to Lang Elliott for the Kingfisher and Snow Geese sounds.
For other water sounds and music, and for more Virginia water information, visit our Web site at virginiawaterradio.org, or call us at (540) 231-5463. From the Virginia Water Resources Research Center in Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.
SHOW NOTES
This week, we feature a year of mystery sounds. Have a listen for about 70 seconds to 12 sounds that you could hear from January to December in a Virginia water year.
SOUNDS.
Let’s see how many you recognized! The sounds were whales spouting; a Special Olympics “Polar Plunge”; Spring Peepers; an American Toad; a Red-winged Blackbird; a beaver’s tail-splat; a Belted Kingfisher; shorebirds and waves; a kayak paddler; the New River; Snow Geese; and a fog horn. I hope that your upcoming year is full of water-related sounds and many good things. Thanks to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the whale and shorebird sounds, and to Lang Elliott for the Kingfisher and Snow Geese sounds.
For other water sounds and music, and for more Virginia water information, visit our Web site at virginiawaterradio.org, or call us at (540) 231-5463. From the Virginia Water Resources Research Center in Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.
SHOW NOTES
A 2012 Virginia water view: South Fork
Shenandoah River at Rileyville (Page County), July 22.
Acknowledgments: The sounds of the Belted Kingfisher and Snow Geese were taken from the Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs-Eastern Region CD set, by Lang Elliott with Donald and Lillian Stokes (Time Warner Audio Books, copyright 1997), used with permission of Lang Elliott, whose work is available online at http://www.langelliott.com/ and the “Music of Nature” Web site, http://www.musicofnature.org/ (as of 12/17/12). The whale and shorebirds/waves sounds were taken from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s “Sound Clips” Web site (public domain sounds) at http://www.fws.gov/video/sound.htm, accessed 12/17/12.
Acknowledgments: The sounds of the Belted Kingfisher and Snow Geese were taken from the Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs-Eastern Region CD set, by Lang Elliott with Donald and Lillian Stokes (Time Warner Audio Books, copyright 1997), used with permission of Lang Elliott, whose work is available online at http://www.langelliott.com/ and the “Music of Nature” Web site, http://www.musicofnature.org/ (as of 12/17/12). The whale and shorebirds/waves sounds were taken from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s “Sound Clips” Web site (public domain sounds) at http://www.fws.gov/video/sound.htm, accessed 12/17/12.
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