Bird Talk
Spent an hour out on my sister’s patio that is a few yards from the draw. This is the bird conversation that I overheard:
Beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver
chip chip chip chip
Whee whee whee whee
daring do, daring do, daring do, daring do
cherry cherry cherry cherry
who’re you? who’re you? who’re you? who’re you?
chip chip chip chip chip chip chip chip
Pretty bird. Pretty pretty pretty
choo choo choo choo choo choo choo choo
wheet wheet
cheerio cheerio cheerio cheerio
beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver.
pretty pretty pretty pretty
trrrrrrrr trrrrrrrr trrrrrrr trrrrr
oooeeeooooeee ooeee oooeee
pooooreeee poooreeee pooorrrreee
cheater cheater
pretty bird pretty bird
chee chee chee chee chee chee chee
cheater cheater cheater cheater
t t t t t t t t t
Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter
whilygig? whirlygig? whirlygig? whirlygig?
Does anyone know any of these bird languages?
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lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
The birds are very talkative.They exchange information about the activities around the yard and hous.
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So they are talking about me, right?
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Yes.
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That sounds like the bird that kept me awake from midnight until dawn for several nights last week — looked like a crow or a grackle. I had to close the window and hide under the covers to get any sleep!
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Grackles have so many varied calls.
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I bet you’d make great money learning to translate this. LOL
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This made me laugh, and so appreciate your listening skills.
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Ha.. just wish I was better at foreign languages.
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Haha! Very talkative birds.
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What a noisy lot. The only one here I can translate is the deceptively sweet song of the robin which, roughly translated means: “keep off my territory”.
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How is your little robin friend? Is he still around?
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No. Afraid he didn’t make it back this year. Thanks for asking, Judy
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Nope.
greek to me. LOL
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Talk is cheep!! ;o)
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I think the road-runner says BEEP-BEEEP.
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Darn.. forgot to include the road-runner. I’ve seen several but they were all silent. No Wiley Coyote pursuing them.
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Judy, I spent time in the Sonora Desert, quail go chi-ca-go, but was baffled by most of your bird calls. My favorite was always the prairie Meadow Lark until some troll said it meant in Finnish “Paholaiset vievät sinut”, Devils going to take you. Hope all is well with you in Mexico.
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Hi Leland. Plenty of quail here. As a matter of fact that is one on the post in the photo. I’ll be listening for Chi-ca-go!! Mourning Doves weren’t calling at the time I wrote this poem, but plenty of them here..I’ll have to listen more closely to see if they are just keening or actually talking to me.
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Did you send a review on my novel ‘Bay Area Bad Guys?” I think that outfit ACX might be another rip-off.
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