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In reply to the discussion: Birds are gone [View all]I_UndergroundPanther
(13,324 posts)Years ago flocks of birds would take like an hour to pass over your house during migration it was mostly starlings but
I remember reading silent spring when I was young it scared the fuck out of me. The idea of no more birds .Now its happening and its not just dioxin.
Maybe saw 10 crows, two songbirds a lonely seagull a wren at a birdfeeder heard one bird singing yesterday while I was walking and just felt profoundly sad. These are the birds I have seen this summer so far. Birdsongs used to be like a background soundtrack during the summer.
And I remember waking up to birdsongs because summers were not this miserable and it cooled off at night so we slept with the windows open and this was in Maryland. We didnt get an air conditioner until like 1978. The birds were so loud at the asscrack of dawn there was no sleeping.Add in my pet rooster crowing his heart out sleeping was hopeless.