--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <fintlewoodle...@...> wrote: > > This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large > jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. > I can sit in my garden and without realizing what it is > that's missing I can hear what bird song actually sounds > like, there is a deep silence that seem to go on forever.
The NY Times's The Lede blog had a poignant video someone made in "Garden Valley" in the U.K.--dunno where that is-- of a blackbird singing at dawn, something he apparently never normally hears uninterrupted because of the jets flying over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wytoOvrVCQ I grew up in New York City and was totally inured to the constant sound of airplanes. Where I am now on the Jersey Shore, there's maybe one a week or so that comes over, and it always feels like a big intrusion. So I can sympathize.
