I stuck my mic out the window again this morning and fed the recordings to the Merlin app, which picked up the usual suspects and at least one more Waxwing flying over the house.
@sciencebase Come a long way from my Pifco cassette recorder left on the garage roof all day.
@SteelFolk Pifco! I do remember than brand!
@sciencebase It ate batteries. Four of those big cylinder ones per recording session (day at school). It had a "condenser mic" built in, whatever one of those is.
@SteelFolk Condenser is the old word for capacitor
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@sciencebase This thing was a stamp-size grill in the plastic case with a mic under it. It used it unless you plugged in one to pretend you were Robert Plant.
@SteelFolk Yes, I had a plugin mic on one of my later cassette players