Contemplating birds
by Jeff Burgess
Title
Contemplating birds
Artist
Jeff Burgess
Medium
Digital Art - Giclee Print
Description
Bird watching has become a recreation of many during the covid pandemic. It can be a "zen" experience, as is portrayed in this work. Best done with soft guitar music in the background. In his book "An Immense World", Ed Yong writes that the "song" of birds is much more complex than is generally considered. And some of their song sound is beyond the range of the human ear to "perceive". And their songs and their own "hearing" may change with the season and with mating. It is the estrogen that is thought to influence the hair cells in their ears. We experience bird song in a different way than the birds themselves. You must enlarge to appreciate the details.
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August 21st, 2022
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Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. l/f 10/1/23
Alex Lapidus
Congratulations, your image has been featured in the Mystery group -- thanks for sharing it with us! Please feel free to add it to the 2023 Feature Archive in the Discussion section (using the "embed" link on your image page).
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured on the homepage of the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! 9/4/22 l/f
Scott Kingery
Fantastic work, Jeff. I don't know about you, but in recent years when I hike in the woods around here, they don't sound as "alive" with their sounds as they once did. It brings to mind a haiku I once read by an author I don't remember. "Gone from the woods the bird I knew by song alone". In our changing environment, I find myself paying more attention than ever to things like bird songs. Fav.
Jeff Burgess replied:
Thanks, Scott. Interesting thoughts. I read (can't recall where, possibly Science magazine) that with less city "congestion" during covid birds normally living outside of urban areas moved in and so there were sightings of all kinds of birds not normally seen. Interesting, right?
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