At first Adam Smith couldn’t believe his calculations. Then it sank in.

Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

  • RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Same, friend. I have three bird tattoos, and I used to be a big birder, but I stopped. The woods around me are becoming quieter, and I can’t stand the silence, so I listen to music instead of looking for friends in the woods.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@beehaw.org
      7·
      1 year ago

      Silence in the woods is viscerally unsettling to me.

      Just the other day at a metro park, I noticed it and it made me quite uneasy. As a rule, I despise mosquitoes, but I should have gotten som mosquito bites in the woods. I did not. Didn’t even use bug spray.