It was a quiet morning, no bird chatter.
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The feeding platform is not far into the jungle, where birds chatter, mosquitoes hum and cicadas buzz like chainsaws, and there is an expectant quiet as the guides call for the orangutans, who eventually come crashing through the forest.
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In another restaurant, in Saint-Tropez, a fellow salema-eater recalls being convinced he had gone crazy, believing he could "see" people's yells and birds' chatter.
Birds chattered somewhere in the bushes.
Invisible and to me unidentifiable birds chattered in the spring foliage overhead; otherwise, nothing — no cars, no people, no houses in sight.
There were birds chattering in the trees and a few egrets perched along the banks of a suddenly diminished San Antonio River as we cycled south, back to Concepción.
Later, after a lunch of freshly caught grilled fish in the beachside restaurant, Bridget went for a yoga session in a glass-walled room facing the ocean, with birds chattering busily as the sun dipped under the horizon.
Actually, the new film from Danish provocateur Lars von Trier ends with the apocalypse – a funeral for everyone, as a vast planet rears up on the near horizon, lighting up the lawn and setting the birds chattering.
His heart was pounding and his lungs felt as if they'd been turned inside out, but he kept going, slowing to a stiff-kneed walk now, down one street, then another, the windshields of the parked cars pooling in the light like puddles after a storm, birds chattering in the trees, the smell of the earth and the grass so intense it was intoxicating.
