Sunday, October 24, 2010

Bird calls

Warning: this post is even more trivial than usual.

I love how some birds are named onomatopedically--like "Bob White" guail. Their call does sound like they're sort of chanting "Bob White?" Ditto Whip-o-wills--though after reading "The Dunwich Horror" whip-o-wills give me the heebie-jeebies.

So, I sort of give birds I hear nicknames. I have no idea what kind of birds they are--I rarely actually see them, just hear them--but here are some of the names I've given birds around here, based on their calls. Or what their calls sound like to me:

The "Go TEAM go TEAM go TEAM!" bird. The "Jaime Jaime Jaime!" bird. The "get UP!" bird. The Rusty Hinge bird--which I happen to know is a hummingbird.  The "divot divot divot!" bird. The "Ow, dammit!" bird.

I'm sure there are tons of others which will occur to me when I'm not sitting here typing. Feel free to contribute any you have.

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