Just this weekend I was visiting friends in a small town in the south-west of France. I took a country walk on Sunday morning, and noticed there were very few b

Just this weekend I was visiting friends in a small town in the south-west of France. I took a country walk on Sunday morning, and noticed there were very few birds. The familiar, comforting sound of a distant woodpecker, but considering how much forest I walked through and it is fully in Spring-bloom I was very surprised to not see or hear birds in general.