Yesterday in early coverage of the U.S. Open (prior to the monsoon conditions) I happened to notice that the lovely bird sounds that you ordinarily hear in the background of any normal golf tournament seemed extremely amplified. This got me thinking about how one of the major T.V. networks was busted a few years ago during the Masters for “importing” bird sounds into the broadcast. If you didn’t hear that story, apparently the bird noises they were using were from birds not native to the Augusta, Georgia region.