In one ear, I cannot hear low frequency sounds. This means that I often struggle to determine which direction such sounds are coming from.

This morning, I was sitting outside drinking coffee (okay, a coconut mocha antoccino) on my balcony and I heard an airplane presumably overhead. I looked up, though, and couldn't see any airplanes, only a bird, and for a moment, my brain decided that these airplane noises must have been coming from this bird.

This tiny, circling, diving and whirling songbird.

What if birds were just really, really, loud? What if they sounded like jet planes?