| | it's almost 2:00 a.m. this isn't an unimaginable time for me to be awake, but lately my late nights have been interrupted by an uninvited guest. you see in my neighbors yard is a willow tree and in this tree resides our constant evening companion... the mockingbird. i know it sounds cliche, but this guy is driving us crazy! crazy is probably an exaggeration. he can be quite cute at times, but when you're trying to sleep a loud bird is not what you want to drift off to sleep to. to kill a mockingbird seems like more of a genius title than ever before!
these next two stories are completely true and i would swear on the bible in a courthouse if necessary. the night before last we were turning out the lights and brushing teeth, etc. (read: getting ready for bed), when our fine feathered friend began his midnight serenade. you see he doesn't choose to sing until late at night typically after midnight, which is typically our bedtime. anyway, my wife and i are talking about the mockingbird and all of his different calls and whistles. and then we hear the bird do something out of the ordinary... it begins to whistle exactly like a car alarm!?! yes, the bird was "mocking" a car alarm. it literally did like a loud high pitched alarm noise followed by a distinct car alarm chirp, chirp. you know the noise that the little keyless remote makes when you open the electronic/remote doors, or turn off the car alarm. we both just started dying laughing. this bird can really sound like anything.
last night just before drifting off to sleep to the brazen sounds of the mockingbird... which we thought had gotten thrown out of it's roost or something because it was like 12:30a and no sign or sound of him, but almost as soon as my wife could comment that he wasn't chirping he started in. it was almost like he was waiting for us his audience to be seated (in bed) and ready for the evenings performance. well he had a humdinger. i don't know if it tops the car alarm, but he's going through his routine calls... robin, cardinal (i'm pretending to sound like i know bird calls... go with me on this) and then i kid you not, out of nowhere he started ringing like a telephone! i'm not even making this up! it's unbelievable, and unbelievably loud. the bird has obvious skills.
i think tonight i might try to teach him how to whistle the Mayberry theme or g'n'r's Patience or perhaps the intro to DC*B's Foreverandever Etc...
wish me luck.
how can something so loud come out of something so small? (the identical question could be asked about my current listening).
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| | Posted 6/7/2006 1:08 AM - 56 Views - 2 eProps - 2 comments
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