Birds

When I hear a bird, the first time I am taken by its presence and its announcement. I dont think either of the party ever stopped long enough for a chance of parley. So however exciting a thought of bird might be, it seems a diminshed experience that each time we only get to the same point of ... oh its a bird and its somewhere close by. When I read of this beautiful thing that T Jefferson saw on the canal of Languedoc ..'row of nightingales in full chorus'..thats so unlikely that we will come across it.. so much that I will never imagine it.. but what about birds in number? the way they swoop in the evening.. making you drop every thought and gawk at them.