Laughing gull calls / wind passing through poplar tree leaves / mourning doves in the early morning / song sparrows while I work in the garden ‘ spring peepers across the street from my Manorville home / crickets at dusk / Screech and great horned owls calling at 3AM / breaking waves lapping and crashing /wind clicking tall dry grass / wind passing through pitch pine needles /osprey overhead / gurgling water beneath the hull of a small sail boat / chickens clucking at egg laying time /spouting whales as they surface / frog calls – green and bull / a swan flying by /wing beats of the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird / wood thrush calls early morning deep in the pine barrens / herring gull calls / great blue heron taking flight / catbirds, veery’s, fish crows, American crows / the oven bird high in a tree canopy / house wren and northern oriole / honking Canada geese / piping plover peeps / screech of two touching tree trunks / the wining wind seeping through cracks in my man cave / the faint snap of a wisteria pod opening / sifting compost through a screen / crunch of gravel stones as I hike uphill on a well—worn trail in Manorville Hills / thump of large, green black walnut tree nut hitting the ground / in early spring, robins in early dawn / a rock avalanche on Lyell Canyon, Yosemite National Park /  crinkly of dry corn leaves / hairy woodpecker hitting a hollow tree branch