The summer of silent lawn mowers

The summer of silent lawn mowers

Greetings readers, and welcome to that time of the year when I think about downloading a birdsong app to learn all the names of my neighborhood chirpers. (Narrator: she didn’t, she won’t.) In other words, it sounds like spring out there. I honestly couldn’t tell you the difference between a finch and a chickadee, a wren and a warbler. But I still try to tune in to the treetops on my morning dog walk, listening for the squeaky fence bird, the Hon…