The Most Beautiful and Rare Bird Song
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My favorite starting in early childhood is the mourning dove, a six tone melody.
Yeh.... that's a video. 
For years now, when I take a shower, I open the small window in my shower to let the steam out, and years ago a chickadee that was building a nest under the awning of that window would give me one of his twerps, so I started making that sound back at him. Then, we did this every morning, now generations later for that bird, I still twerp at his kids, grandkids, whatever, and they twerp back at me. I'm not sure what we are saying, but the birds seem to kick a kick out of it, and if they aren't there to twerp back, I always wonder what they're doing. But, they are about the yard year round.
For years now, when I take a shower, I open the small window in my shower to let the steam out, and years ago a chickadee that was building a nest under the awning of that window would give me one of his twerps, so I started making that sound back at him. Then, we did this every morning, now generations later for that bird, I still twerp at his kids, grandkids, whatever, and they twerp back at me. I'm not sure what we are saying, but the birds seem to kick a kick out of it, and if they aren't there to twerp back, I always wonder what they're doing. But, they are about the yard year round.
“Look at his pecker” perhaps?
The other day I saw a chickadee and he was singing in-a-gadda-da-vida. Now I know why.Yeh.... that's a video.
For years now, when I take a shower, I open the small window in my shower to let the steam out, and years ago a chickadee that was building a nest under the awning of that window would give me one of his twerps, so I started making that sound back at him. Then, we did this every morning, now generations later for that bird, I still twerp at his kids, grandkids, whatever, and they twerp back at me. I'm not sure what we are saying, but the birds seem to kick a kick out of it, and if they aren't there to twerp back, I always wonder what they're doing. But, they are about the yard year round.
A 17 minute song is a hell of an effort for such a tiny bird.
Birds that can Rap are called Raptors.
birds will sometimes jam along call and response style if you play an instrument outdoors. Honestly most of the time it feels musical and playful less then explicit and meaningful. They're pretty jazz about it is what I am saying.Yeh.... that's a video.
For years now, when I take a shower, I open the small window in my shower to let the steam out, and years ago a chickadee that was building a nest under the awning of that window would give me one of his twerps, so I started making that sound back at him. Then, we did this every morning, now generations later for that bird, I still twerp at his kids, grandkids, whatever, and they twerp back at me. I'm not sure what we are saying, but the birds seem to kick a kick out of it, and if they aren't there to twerp back, I always wonder what they're doing. But, they are about the yard year round.
The original scat artists.
also applies to what they do to cars too. But it's kind of amazing because they will throw back the themes you play for them. And it does feel like jamming with a jazz musician of the sort that makes you feel like a rank amatuer.
I've tried talking with crows, and they seem to be good conversationalists. They're smart, live in big family groups, and the young adults help raise the young before being parents. If you feed them, sometimes they will drop little bright objects as gifts in return. Sounds farfetched, but once you are around them, it doesn't. We don't have as many mockingbirds in N.C. as we used to, but they are real virtuosos, and often combine song with doing back flips on the top of light poles and such. They can do a whole catalog of birdcalls. I believe the current thinking is that birds are the surviving ancestors of dinosaurs, warm blooded but egg-laying.
Well, they don't do the drum solo.
Heard some racket going on outside not long after the snow/ice/deep freeze here in the south. Much to my surprise there was a Pileated Woodpecker going to town on an old tree stump. Must have had some goodies in it because he whittled it down quite a bit!
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