I’m recording at Tomales Bay, on the kayak… between Heart’s Desire Beach and Shallow Beach. And now, dead ahead, I’m seeing a Belted Kingfisher. My friend Gustav calls the Belted Kingfisher the “mechanical bird.” We used to live next door to one another on Sonoma Creek and the Kingfishers would fly by, calling, with that ratchety kind of sound that they have in their voice. And that’s why he called it the “mechanical bird.”…