Just before sunrise, I went jogging at the edge of town: I heard the loud rattle of tree crickets; chirping of field crickets; doves calling; I saw a cluster of robins scouting the pavement and yards, but there was no robin chorus, just the steady chirping of the sparrow flocks; a cardinal sang toward the edge of town, but he was the only one. When the sun came over the tree line, a song sparrow, a red-bellied woodpecker called in the woods, and a kingfisher screeched across the pond. Near