Doug, I'm puzzled. Is it because your wife's family would teach the chat to make gross sounds, or because they would think you crazy for conversating with a bird? Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Hennig To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 12:01 PM Subject: [birdky] "Kentucky Kookaburras" have returned to Magoffin County Friends Am pleased to report that the Yellow Breasted Chats have returned to our property here in eastern Kentucky. I remain amused all summer by their variety of clucks, chortles, whistles and assorted grunt-like sounds. I have found that I can engage them for extended periods of time in exchanges of various sound effects---but please, not a word about this to any of my wife's relatives. J Doug Hennig Caney, KY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------