[va-richmond-general] Re: Mozart's Starling

  • From: "IE Ries" <featherchaser@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:55:53 -0400

  As requested!

  http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20000415/bob11.asp

  http://www.starlingtalk.com/mozart1.htm


  Mozart's Starling's Epitaph
  A little fool lies here
  Whom I held dear-
  A starling in the prime
  Of his brief time
  Whose doom it was to drain
  Death's bitter pain.
  Thinking of this, my heart
  Is riven apart.
  Oh reader! Shed a tear,
  You also, here.
  He was not naughty, quite,
  But gay and bright,
  And under all his brag
  A foolish wag.
  This no one can gainsay
  And I will lay
  That he is now on high,
  And from the sky,
  Praises me without pay
  In his friendly way.
  Yet unaware that death
  Has choked his breath,
  And thoughtless of the one
  Whose rime is thus well done.




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Michael Shapiro" <sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 9:53 PM
  Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Mozart's Starling


  That's pretty cool. If you find more information about that, I think you
  should post a link. I know *I'd* like to see it.

  Michael

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "IE Ries" <featherchaser@xxxxxxxxxx>
  To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 8:50 PM
  Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: birding by ear


  >   There's legend that Mozart had a pet Starling, and that some of the
  music
  > he composed was inspired by his little singing friend :)
  >
  >
  >   Irene in Southside
  >
  >   ----- Original Message ----- 
  >   From: "ben saunders" <betsyben@xxxxxxxx>
  >   To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  >   Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:33 PM
  >   Subject: [va-richmond-general] birding by ear
  >
  >
  >
  >   Last Sunday in Monterey at the Bevredge's feeder, Ben and I watched a
  >   starling as it mimicked a bluebird, a chickadee, a robin and a 
Baltimore
  >   Oriole. Boy was he good!  Had I not been watching his little beak 
move,
  I
  >   would have ticked off five birds, four of which were not there.  It
  made
  >   us remember the starling in Cape Charles who did a perfect "Bob White"
  >   and the White Eyed Vireo that doubled as a catbird. It also made us
  >   question the reliability of birding by ear, especially for folks like 
me
  >   who aren't all that good in the first place. From now on I'll try to
  >   remember:  If the bird sounds too good to be true, it might be a
  >   starling.
  >
  >
  >
  >
  >
  >
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