Walking along Hunter's Path, Teign Gorge, to Sharp Tor, with birdsong

This is a recording that I wasn't intending to keep, because I made it only in order to capture an unfamiliar bird song I'd heard a few days before by Sharp Tor, by the Hunter's Path, high up on the north side of the so-called Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK. However it occurred to me that some Freesounders might appreciate it for particular uses. I'm not sure that I heard the particular bird this time, though I paused for some minutes by Sharp Tor to see if the bird would perform for me.

As well as my shoes scrunching on the very gritty track, we have the constant sound of the River Teign far below, and spring birdsong.

I made this recording on morning of 9 May 2025, starting the walk at David's Seat just east of Hunter's Tor, and finished just a little beyond Sharp Tor. Geolocation is for Sharp Tor.

Hunter's Path from beginning of this little walk. Sharp Tor (the path more exposed there, with some precipitous crags) is hidden in this view, round a couple of bends in the woods beyond the nearest spur on right.

Techie stuff:

Recorder was a Sony PCM-D100, with two nested custom Windcut furry windshields. I used an Aoka carbon-fibre mini tripod with legs together, as a grip and hand-held it for the duration of the recording. Unusually, I had the mics for all recordings in that session set to narrow (90°) angle (my default setting is wide-angle — 120°).

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield, and widened the soundstage back to about 120° using the A1 Stereo Control VST plugin, so giving a zoomed-in effect.

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