The background noise is still and issue but at least with my new hearing aides I can hear a Song Sparrow for the first time since 1965.

My biggest challenge is trying to figure out what that new sound is, somebodies loud car radio a half mile away or a bird 🙂

> On Nov 2, 2019, at 11:46 AM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
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> Because Treasure Valley has so much ambient noise… birding by ear is too much of a challenge, and/or maybe I need those hearing aids that allow you to tune in birds and tune out noise (traffic, aircraft, yada, yada, yada).
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> I grew up (in retirement) doing bird and vegetation transects for Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory in *remote* areas of N Arizona and W Colorado (shhh, please, they’re still best kept secrets I think), where I could actually Hear the Birds! Little did I know how fast that particular ten years would fly by, nor did I fully appreciate these three basic necessities for birding… decent eyes, ears, brain.
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> So, where exactly is that fountain of youth, and does Medicare cover it? Please send GPS coordinates…….
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> Happy November birding, folks!
> S’s and G’s 😉
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Ken Miracle
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