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A lovely situation which I had passed in the car the day before; sheep grazing right beside the water, actually going right down to the water to eat the seaweed in some places. These sheep - like all prey, I guess - ran away from me as soon as I approached them, so I set my FOSTEX FR-2LE and Naiant X-X microphones down in the grass near a bit of bank covered in bits of wool (I think the sheep scratch against the earth there) and went away onto the other side of the bank, so as to hopefully encourage the sheep to approach my recorder, and remove my own threatening presence from their grazing area. You can faintly hear the sheep passing through the grass, and baa-ing to each other, you can also hear the wind, and some birds quite distantly. It's very windy in Shetland, especially in an exposed spot like this.
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Sources & credits
- “near Windhouse, Yell, Shetland Islands, UK - Sheep grazing right beside an inlet” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0