Assembling a new demo--"The Nature Special"

My father has recommended that I should include among my voice demo clips a session of straight narration, so during a relatively unoccupied period last Sunday I wrote up a swell little bit of voiceovering to accompany an imaginary nature video about the Snowy Owl, an old favorite avian. I recorded a raw vocal demo for it already, but I want to work a version of it up to sound like an authentic nature video a la National Geo. I am working on the ambient and other sound effects for the clip, and I have a variety of cricket sounds to cut around for different "shots" of the predator at work and at play. I have recently been fascinated by the Wilhelm Scream, and so I intend to use a version of it for the death scream of a hapless little bunny. I am sure I can pick up some feather ruffling and related sounds fairly easily. I'll post it when I have a full version ready.
I have recently been getting into various open source projects and I've been using Audacity for multitracking, though it's relatively hard to work with. I have more often used a free piece of software, the Freeware version of Quartz Audio Master (registration required), where you can slide the tracks around at will without specifying the lead-in duration. For general recording I've been using GoldWave for years and it's been just fine for me.
---Just in case you're interested. Got alternate suggestions? Love to hear them!
Chris O'Brien

Welcome to Voicecrafting!

I have just set up a new blog for my voice acting and voiceover work. Here is the first post. Now I've gotta get back to class.