{"id":41991,"date":"2026-07-01T13:44:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=41991"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:44:51","slug":"another-brief-look-in-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/07\/another-brief-look-in-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"Another brief look, in daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quite pleased to have gotten this. I was up yesterday at first light, not exactly intentionally, but used the opportunity to watch for duck and geese raids on the pond edge. Instead, I realized I was hearing the juvie barred owl (<em>Strix varia<\/em>) calls from right in the backyard again, so I gathered the long lens and tripod and went out looking.<\/p>\n<p>While two were in evidence from the calls, I only saw one, and that one was flitting between perches a little anxiously &#8211; perhaps because of my presence, perhaps not, I can&#8217;t be sure. I was locked in on it just barely appearing from behind a trunk, terrible conditions, when it left that perch and took this one. A small movement of the tripod gave me a clear view &#8211; headphones are recommended for the faint calls<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1206218573?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"A quick one from the early morning\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was just <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/06\/cant-ask-for-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">a week ago<\/a> when I considered myself incredibly lucky to get the siblings preening and hanging around right out back, and now I snag one in daylight. Even better, I&#8217;ve now uploaded <em>two<\/em> videos in sub-two-minute, TikTok-attention-span lengths! I wouldn&#8217;t count on this becoming a habit, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I attacked the audio to see if I could isolate those calls a bit better, and it wasn&#8217;t too hard to get it to this point<strong>;<\/strong> the calls are very high-pitched while most background noise is pretty low, which is why low-pass filters are common. I simply wiped out everything below a certain frequency threshold, but don&#8217;t ask me what that was since I didn&#8217;t take notes. Enhancing it further is presently beyond my skills, since the frequencies of the calls are varied and overlapping other bird calls. I made an attempt to drop the pitch as well, simply to get it into the range The Girlfriend can hear, but this didn&#8217;t work well enough.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll be happy to continue this trend as long as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quite pleased to have gotten this. I was up yesterday at first light, not exactly intentionally, but used the opportunity to watch for duck and geese raids on the pond edge. Instead, I realized I was hearing the juvie barred owl (Strix varia) calls from right in the backyard again, so I gathered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3809],"tags":[3791,8720,8325,3196,3792],"class_list":["post-41991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-video","tag-barred-owl","tag-calling-for-food","tag-calls","tag-juvenile","tag-strix-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41994,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991\/revisions\/41994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}