Date: 8/11/25 2:25 pm From: Kevin Lucas via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Hearing aids + Bushtits
Carol,
I find that a fully brimmed hat reflects many sounds, making birding by ear
more difficult, and direction finding extremely difficult. I still hear
high frequencies very well. The brim seems to reflect higher frequencies
more than lower frequencies. While wearing a brimmed hat, sounds of others
rustling their clothes and their whissssssssspers are among those that are
disproportionately amplified to the detriment of my hearing birds well.
Perhaps adding a layer of softer, textured fabric to the underside of the
brim would help here (hear?), just as lining a sound recording parabola
with fuzzies would trash the efficacy of it.
While working with Desert Tortoises on projects that required me to wear a
hardhat, I used an auxiliary full brim that was covered with terry cloth. I
preferred it greatly to the other brim I had that was smooth and reflected
high frequency sounds more.
Sound direction finding was still diminished, but less so for me with the
terry brim than with the stiffer one.
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM Tom and Carol Stoner via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> My biggest complaint is that my favorite winter birding hat hisses and
> rustles in my ears when I wear my hearing aids. Need to shop for a better
> bonnet.
>
> The Bushtit fall extravaganza is in full swing at our feeder. I finally
> got a good, pretty accurate count--29 in the flock.
>
> Carol Stoner
> West Seattle
>
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