The most terrified I've ever been was tent camping in the mountains of Arizona, high up in the peaks among tall pines, when a nighttime thunderstorm passed over us. Wind, thunder, lightning, torrential rain, and even through all of that the creak and sway of the trees was audible. I wanted to dig myself into the ground. It passed, we were safe, but I have never forgotten that feeling.
I’ve also wondered if birds sing louder in noisy places and found out that they do!
“They sing louder and longer in noisy cities. And they will raise their voices to a higher pitch to make themselves heard over the low-frequency rumble of traffic and machinery.”
There's a chalkland hillside near me that has loads of orchids every year (including Bee and Man orchids) and I went there the other day and was shocked not to be able to find a single bee orchid.
The most terrified I've ever been was tent camping in the mountains of Arizona, high up in the peaks among tall pines, when a nighttime thunderstorm passed over us. Wind, thunder, lightning, torrential rain, and even through all of that the creak and sway of the trees was audible. I wanted to dig myself into the ground. It passed, we were safe, but I have never forgotten that feeling.
I’ve also wondered if birds sing louder in noisy places and found out that they do!
“They sing louder and longer in noisy cities. And they will raise their voices to a higher pitch to make themselves heard over the low-frequency rumble of traffic and machinery.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherdisappointingwalk/p/five-starling-review?r=911oa&utm_medium=ios
I was about to ask the same question - that's fascinating.
There's a chalkland hillside near me that has loads of orchids every year (including Bee and Man orchids) and I went there the other day and was shocked not to be able to find a single bee orchid.
It must be a bad year for them for some reason.