{"id":1449,"date":"2006-05-27T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:43:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:43:55","slug":"do-you-hear-what-i-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Do you hear what I hear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/onlineguide\/coe_gallery.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/waxwing-261x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5434687\">This story<\/a> on NPR today made me chuckle &#8211; the things teenagers will do to confound adults! I know that I hear birdsong better than non-birders, simply because my ears are *trained* to hear what distinguishes one birdsong from another, but this story reminded me that not all birders are able to hear all birdsongs. As we age, our ability to hear high-pitched sounds decreases. In my mid-thirties, I can hear the very high and thin notes of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdwatchersdigest.com\/site\/backyard_birds\/bird_id\/cedar_waxwing.aspx\">flock of cedar waxwings<\/a>, but as I age I will likely lose this ability to hear their &#8220;seeeeeee&#8221; notes. The high upslurred notes at the end of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdwatchersdigest.com\/site\/backyard_birds\/bird_id\/blackburnian_warbler.aspx\">Blackburnian&#8217;s song<\/a> are also hard to hear if your ears are less sensitive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Small flocks of cedar waxwings accompanied the dog and I on our evening walk today.  They were congregating in the black locust trees in the neighborhood, attracted by the many insects, I guess.  I&#8217;ve also noticed that hummingbirds seem to have a fondness for locust trees, at least the ones in the grove at Sandy Hook&#8217;s North Pond.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story on NPR today made me chuckle &#8211; the things teenagers will do to confound adults! I know that I hear birdsong better than non-birders, simply because my ears are *trained* to hear what distinguishes one birdsong from another, but this story reminded me that not all birders are able to hear all birdsongs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you hear what I hear?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}