No Birds Singing

Jax and I started up Hurrah but towards the first turn and the drop offs I hadn't heard a single bird noise in half an hour so we cut back into a creek bed not far from Skinny People and returned to the lodge just in case something did happen or was about to happen. I've hiked thousands of times out here and never had a single time that I didn't hear birds singing somewhere. We got back and sat on the porch for half an hour or so. None of the little people were talking. We went inside, ate, read, napped, came back out and everything was normal.