We'd just finished an early morning phone chat with our good friend, sound wizard Rik Rue in OZ, and were coming back from the morning chores - the birds were going crazy in celebration of the sun and warm and coming of spring. so I stuck a mic out the back window of the garage and grabbed a piece of what was going on in the backyard. listen here. dedicated to Rik Rue. 

we used to have a stray dog that we took in - almost totally deaf - that could predict storms. he could sense changes in barometric pressure and feel the vibrations of thunder through his paw pads long before you could ever hear it. chickadees are the same way. they know when a big weather change is on its way. not sure how they do it. this morning after letting the horses out, I was working on the wood pile while waiting for the vet (no biggie - just routine stuff this time), toking up before the big arctic front slammed us down into the single digits, and I was suddenly harangued by droves o

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