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We wait for peepers to tell us it’s spring and the birdsong shifts as we move into summer. The birds are now waking me up, they’re LOUD. Lol!

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This is how I know you are at a much more northern latitude than me-- my 5am LOUD bird alarm clock started a month ago and now tailing off!! In LA, we are in June Gloom, which is a "between time" for us.... so it is not spring and not summer.... the birds are definitely quieting down and nesting is underway, if not over... This is also when the juvenile hawks learn to fly here so that also makes the songbirds keep a low profile :)

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May 17, 2023Liked by Leanne Ogasawara

Omg! These sounds are really wonderful! (Sorry I missed this essay when you posted it; working away . . . ). I never thought about the sound of the worms either. I try to imagine what we sounded like hundreds of years ago before the engine chuffed us out of our sense for being in harmony with different horizons of sound -- well, it wouldn't be horizons, really, but an audio scale of the bridge of here and there. I wonder what these would sound like? https://weather.com/science/nature/video/glacier-mice-are-a-fuzzy-little-mystery-to-scientists

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Sally, the glacier mice are incredible... I also like to imagine the soundscape of a hundred years ago, a thousand years so...

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