Birds in Hội An

A few weeks ago I was talking with my sister on the phone while sitting on our back porch in Hội An. She kept asking me to be quiet. I do blabber on a bit too much, so it wasn’t a totally odd request. But she explained that she was trying to listen to the birds in the background, then added that I should post the sound of the birds on my website. So here are a few clips. These clips are missing the roosters that are present when I first go out in the morning. I am usually outside by 6 am and get to read, drink coffee, and eat for an hour or so before I start my day. We leave for Hanoi tomorrow. I will miss my morning time with the birds.

This post is also for Kathy “I love birds” Blondheim. She has no idea that this is her nickname in our house. A few years ago we went to lunch with her while visiting Atlanta. Ethan was talking excitedly about a bird watching hike that we had just been on; Kathy’s eyes lit up, and she exclaimed, “I love birds!” It turns out that Ethan doesn’t care about birds very much. He simply liked the hike because he got to talk to a lot of adults for a few hours. But Kathy genuinely does love birds.