Watching and listening to what little golf is being played at the TPC I can't help noticing that every 10 seconds you hear a loud Chicadee call. Now Chicadees are common birds up north, but I never thought of them as being common in Florida, and it would take an invasion of them in Hitchcock numbers (or I suppose just a few nesting on the microphones) to produce all that noise. Is the TPC really infested with Chicadees or has NBC been screwing with the audio?
Toomanyputters 28 March 2005 03:33:04 [ permanent link ]
They are probably Tufted Titmouse. They sound very similar, and carry on all day.
"warren montgomery" <wamontgomery@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:1KOdnVtKtJK43drfRVn-3w@comcast.com...> Watching and listening to what little golf is being played at the TPC I> can't help noticing that every 10 seconds you hear a loud Chicadee call.> Now Chicadees are common birds up north, but I never thought of them as> being common in Florida, and it would take an invasion of them in > Hitchcock> numbers (or I suppose just a few nesting on the microphones) to produce > all> that noise. Is the TPC really infested with Chicadees or has NBC been> screwing with the audio?>
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:34:10 -0600, "warren montgomery" <wamontgomery@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
Watching and listening to what little golf is being played at the TPC I> can't help noticing that every 10 seconds you hear a loud Chicadee call.> Now Chicadees are common birds up north, but I never thought of them as> being common in Florida, and it would take an invasion of them in Hitchcock> numbers (or I suppose just a few nesting on the microphones) to produce all> that noise. Is the TPC really infested with Chicadees or has NBC been> screwing with the audio?
When I went down to the Tampa area in January and played there, I heard bird sounds exactly like those I had heard on broadcasts. At first I thought, "How tacky to put amplifiers and speakers in the woods!" Them was real birds. Ezzackly like on the teevee. Loud. Constant. I kept waiting for Jim Nance to say something fatuous.
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:36:20 -0500, MacHamish <rjimeson1@comcast.remove.net> wrote:
On 27 Mar 2005 21:17:59 -0800, "BowTie - Chevy" <bowtieroller@yahoo.com>> wrote:>
Jim Nance is on CBS. Stand by for him during the Masters. The Players> >was on NBC. You probably knew that.> >
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Them was real birds. Ezzackly like on the teevee. Loud. Constant.> >I kept waiting for Jim Nance to say something fatuous.>
Perhaps he was thinking of the King of Fatuousity, Jimmy Roberts. Typical> opening questions for his interviews:>
To Padraig Herrington: "How difficult is it for you to be here when your> father in Ireland is dying of cancer?">
To Phil Mickelson: "Phil, you hit it in the water on 18. What happened> there?">
The guy needs to be broomed.>
That's pretty outrageous, all right. But I stand by my nomination of Nance as the most unctuous, cloying, Wistaria-like flapmouth -- when the Masters is over, I have to use kitchen degreaser on the rug in front of the TV, if I haven't muted him in time. Oily? Oy. I wish he could just talk into my crankcase. Save me a bundle.
