Where do the bird songs come from on the audio of Prodigal Summer?
Those birdsongs were recorded in deep woods in the mountains of southwestern Virginia by my husband, Steven Hopp, an ornithologist who happens to study birdsong. He recorded these guys for other purposes, but when I was in the studio taping Prodigal Summer it dawned on me that the perfect musical interludes between chapters could be provided by Wood Thrushes and Scarlet Tanagers.
