h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'll say it was a bit ruff... Before anyone else. One I have to redo, should've checked sound when I did pics

There is audio software - I don't use it, but if you're going to go (semi)pro, you might consider it. There are 'free month' samples available on Amazon for testing. You can remove mistakes, balance sound, equalise, etc.

Not a sound geek, and I'm hearing-impaired, but I did radio in the dark ages, which meant that platters literally spun...I can 'cue up' a 33 1/3...

These are just practice sessions I'm mooching in on mate, outdoors too. There are mics and amps available when they are. But I do need a sound mixer anyway. Just plug your ears and enjoy the flowers.

Willem, I'm not sure what, if anything happened to the cormorant video...the one below features anhingas...different music...30 second longer for some nest-sitting...

https://youtu.be/7BKu2nQ7hwg

I wasn't complaining, just kibitzing. I know outdoors. A couple of Labor Days ago, I had this outdoor gig in front of the uni library. with an amplifier. I think I could be heard at least as far as the First Church of Nighthoover...

Thanks Phred I like the music! Those are definitely Anhingas. You can easily tell them from cormorants … they have straight, sharp-tipped bills, while all cormorants have hook-tipped bills. Also neat that you can see in that video is their big webbed feet! Like cormorants they have webs between all four toes. They perch somewhat awkwardly but they manage!

When you look up anhinga, the cormorant is listed as a similar bird. I saw one of the former swimming in a Florida lake many years ago. It had just its neck and head above water. I thought it was a big cottonmouth water mocassin. When it flew away, I thought it was a snakebird. I've lived in Florida my whole life and never heard of anhingas before this month...we have all kinds of strange birds that probably will remain nameless to me...but I know sandhill crane, roseate spoonbill, white ibis, and white egret now...

Anhingas and snakebirds are the same thing! And here in South Africa we call them darters.