birds

I hope everybody in the world knows about Merlin, the amazing free app that helps identify birds by sound or photos. I've had Merlin for years, and I love it.

I have a collection of bird calls in my iTunes library (the Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs), and I love to include those tracks in my random playlists.

The other day I was listening to some songs, and the recording of king eiders and common eiders came up.

It was fabulous.

The recordings at Cornell Lab's All About Birds aren't quite the same, but they're still wonderful: