To the birds

Goodbye, Meadowlarks: Study Reports 3 Billion Fewer Birds In U.S. And Canada

"The first thing about the study that makes it unique is the towering scale of the declines across the hemisphere," says Joan Walsh, Mass Audubon’s chair of natural history and field ornithology. "The signals indicate decline for virtually all groups that they looked at, except for birds from freshwater wetlands. So we're getting a signal from many different habitats that there's a crisis."

Used to be a veritable concert outside my bedroom window on summer mornings. Now, not so much. 

Used to get a little grumpy about the noise (yes, really); now I miss them.

Maybe some day they'll come back.