What bothers me is it’s April and the birds here are not singing early morning. It’s like they know something is amiss.
The birds here are chirping. The crows never stop making their racket.
Rachel Carlson. Silent Spring. It’s your fault.
Where I live it's the opposite. The birds arrived early. They are singing. The wildlife is especially frisky. The expectant squirrels looked like they had taken fertility drugs going by the size of them.
We have many doves here, but none of them mourn. We've never heard a peep out of them, except for the sound of their wings.
I actually noticed something rather unusual early last Fall -- none of the wildlife seemed the least bit concerned about winter. Nobody fattening up, no chipmunks hoarding... even the flowers weren't in any hurry to flower and set seed. They did finally, in late fall when normally the annuals would be done and gone. Instead we had bumblebees lounging on 10ft high cosmos, in every flower center a bumblebee.
Figured it would be a mind winter and early spring, which is exactly what happened.
I'd never seen such strong, consistent messaging. I couldn't *not* notice.
Now the spring growth is emerging and it's particulary robust. Mayflower has been busy spreading every which way, and I know it wasn't in these places last year.
The birds around me are making all kinds of noise. No lack of geese, sparrows, starlings, doves, woodpeckers, robins, finches or other birds.
But the turkey buzzards hanging around aren’t helping my comfort levels.
The various species have all been accustomed to the various rhythms of our nation’s economic and social activity is my guess. It has been altered and they are reacting to it with confusion. It may differ in some areas...the birds, in the mornings, sure are putting up quite a raucous noise in my area.
What kind of birds? What state do you live in?