The changing sounds of the season

The seasons are changing and so are the sounds.
In the past couple of weeks I have really noticed the decline in the number of birds chirping away in the morning.
Usually as the sun starts to come up so does the chatter of the birds. About a half hour before sunrise a lone bird chirps out, soon joined by another and another until eventually there is so much chatter it is almost deafening.
But now the bird calls are reduced to a few Blue Jays screeching at the tops of trees, announcing that the summer is nearly over and that fall is just around the corner.
In the past few days I have also noticed another sound of the season has changed.
The chatter of kids on the streets in the evenings and early night time has also disappeared.
It is amazing how fast things change this time of year.
The nights get cooler and eventually the days do too. The birds head south and the school year begins.
With the beginning of school the kids are forced back onto a schedule that mom and dad enforces; sending them to bed earlier than all summer long.
In a couple of weeks the sounds of pumpkin champions will ring out in Rainy River as the Giant Pumpkin Festival makes its annual visit to the community.
Then it will be the last sound of summer that echoes down the river. 87 boats will roar up and down the river in an attempt to become the Rainy River Walleye Champs.
Then summer will be all but a memory. Fall winds will strip the trees of their leaves and not too far down the road winter will show its ugly face.
–Until then,
Ken