[LRflex] Re: Mockingbird - Way OT!
- From: William Abbott <bill2301@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:37:18 -0700
Sonny, Philippe,
Thank you for your delightful responses to my story. I can now see that the
mellifluous sounds of birds and poetry are worthy accompaniments to our
photographic arts.
Best,
Bill
On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't know why a sound picture is off topic! I made it with my iPhone 5,
> which is becoming my second camera.
>
> Thanks for the story. Most of the time in Cat vs Mockingbird, the bird is
> the winner, but once upon a time, I saw a different outcome.
>
> In New Orleans, I had a house with a big glass window, and I placed my home
> office there, so that I had a view of the front yard.
>
> My Maine Coon Cat liked to sit under the tree while I worked, so I would
> often let her out there.
>
> Along comes this Mockingbird that begins a persistent attack, swooping and
> diving on her.
>
> I really didn't pay much mind, because for one thing Noël, a rescue cat had
> been de-clawed by a previous someone, and for another, the bird was not
> coming very close at all.
>
> All of a sudden, almost in a flash she snatched that bird right out of the
> air in one motion.
>
> Needless to say after that I looked at my "sweet" Noël in quite a different
> light!
>
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> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:13 PM, William Abbott <bill2301@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Way OT!
>
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Here's a little something different. As I was leaving for work this
>> morning, a Mockingbird was entirely too cheerfully singing his heart out, so
>> I caught a chorus for you on MP3 audio.
>>
>> It will take a moment to load, so be patient. Hope you like it.
>>
>> http://sonc.com/look/?p=2661
>
> Sonny,
>
> I liked the song very much because I grew up with mockingbirds in Florida,
> where they would attack our cats ferociously, and they sing very well here in
> California too.
>
> Here is an apochryphal story from Florida.
>
> It seems that after the Bok Tower and gardens were built at Lake Wales,
> Florida (see http://boktowergardens.org) someone thought that nightingales
> would provide lovely night time songs in the gardens so a large aviary was
> built and nightingales were imported from Europe.
>
> All went well for a while but then nightingale songs began to spread far and
> wide, puzzling the bird's keepers, because as far as they could tell, no
> nightingales had escaped from the aviary.
>
> It soon became apparent that the spread of nightingale songs to the
> surrounding territory was due to wild mockingbirds that had learned the
> distinctive nightingale songs and had begun to imitate them.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill
>
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> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
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