Threads and Tangents 1/31/23 - For the Birds

This week's musical thread is For the Birds.  One of the many cool things about living up here in the northwest corner is the variety of birds we see, and the birdsongs we hear. We can see eagles nesting and soaring overhead year-round.  We have snow geese and trumpeter swans wintering nearby.  And out at Fir Island reserve, we see the shape-shifting flock of thousands of dunlin.  It’s called a murmuration, when clouds of dunlin flash between brilliant white and darker colors as they swirl in the sky.

We'll hear songs about birds from: Laurie Anderson, Andrew Bird, Steve Goodman, Haden Triplets, Howlin’ Wolf, BB King, Lil Ed & Willie Kent, Bob Marley, Mr. Sun, Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Charlie Parker Quartet, Stephen Wade, and Keller Williams (Grateful Grass).