A mere two days and two posts ago I told you about a mystery bird call in the jungly bit behind my garden. It was weak, thin, plaintive, disyllabic and wistful .. ..and the 2nd "weee" was higher. weee weee weee weee weee weee weee weee weee weee And yesterday I heard it again ... but this time there was only one "weee" repeated on the one note. Like this ..... weee weee weee weee weee These sort of things are annoying ! There's always the fear that you've totally forgotten the call of some common bird that you've not heard for a while and completely lost it, brain-wise. Because that's what everybody else will think. Who could blame them ? So ..you start trying to track down what it might be .... you start by looking at Gt. Tit videos ...... they're famous for their amazing cavalcade of allsorts. Well... I've done that, to no avail. And I've done the same thing with various other likely sp. No luck. So ..... I thought of this smashing idea. What ? Another one ? ... you're all thinking. Bird books like Peterson etc have an index at the back. I don't know why they're always at the back. I think they'd be better at the front .. ... that way you don't need to bother finding page 99 ... you can get a good idea of what's in it straight away. Anyhow ... the index generally has all the birds in it, Gull, laughing 23, 56 Gull, limping 331 Gull, Mediterranean 8,16,133 You know the sort of thing. But why not index the calls as well ..... then you could find " wonk-wonk" in the index and look up what bird was doing it ... wonk-wonk 56, 57, 217 Or for that matter ..... her-key, her-key, her-key her-key 123, 137 or Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 286-291 I seem to remember making a sort of mini-version of that from a bit of " Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book" . I'll see if I can find it .... but for now, I've done enough to revolutionise the swift and sure bird-call looky-up thing. And I'm going to have another go at actually seeing the stupid thing. But now, having kicked yet another dark and neglected corner of avian literature up the arse, it is time for the music ..... this is a lovely song that has nothing to do with anything .. ...... I've put the lyrics below ..... "paroles" in French ... On était pas si mal, on était pas si bien, avant qu'on se dévale Ni plus ni moins et puis sans freins. Deux assiettes, un couvert et l'on pourrait s'entendre, Ce serait mieux pour l'hiver des gestes tendres, je peux t'en rendre. Passer juste un peu plus loin, tourner à l'angle de tes reins, baisser la tête sous tes mains. Mais c'est déjà la fin, celle qu'on oublie d'attendre, Une baguette de pain, là, sous le cendre de nos deux mains. Deux assiettes, un couvert et l'on pourrait s'entendre, Ce serait mieux pour l'hiver des gestes tendres, je peux t'en rendre. Passer juste un peu plus loin, tourner à l'angle de tes reins, baisser la tête sous tes mains.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now I'm going to try to find that Oddie " Bird-calls" Index thing ... . this might be it .... oh. no it isn't ... but it is about an index ... funny, too .... 491-more-index-fun.html try again .. -134-that-index-and-a-better-one.html ..... yes .... that's the one. ...... but it doesn't "do" any bird calls. ....... just stuff about binocular-straps and the like. ....... I'll do one ... in the near future ... if us 0ver-70's have a future .
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