Bird Listening Station
Get yourself a cheap microphone with a reasonably long cord, put it outside your window with the cord inside, close the window, and plug the mic into an old tablet or laptop. Open this page on the tablet or laptop and on the cold days of winter you can hear the sounds of outside. It's glorious. Like having a window open in January, without the cold. If you have the mic near a bird feeder that's even better, but this page will pick up bird songs in the area and you'll hear them on the speaker. We have used this all winter long. In January, our kitchen sounds like we're sitting on the lanai in July!