Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for September 21, 2016

Rose needs to meet some of the mockingbirds around here. I stood in a parking lot once for ten minutes straight listening to one of them repeat phrase after phrase exactly twice and then move on to the next, without ever returning to one it had already done. Amazing how much repertoire can be stored in a brain the size of a peanut..I also listened to a grackle give a concert. Now there’s no way a grackle can produce a sound that any human would consider melodic (rubbing a balloon is more tuneful), but you could tell that whatever he was doing had a whole complicated form and structure to it.

I remember piano lessonsThe hours in freezing roomsCruel ears and tiny handsDestroying timeless tunes

She said there’s too much out thereToo much already saidYou’d better give up hopingYou’re better off in bed

Thanks for sharing. . .I can’t tell one bird song from another. . .but I like ’em. . .

Humming birds don’t sing a happy tune. They just hum along.

Just be glad you don’t have a lovelorn mockingbird in your immediate neighborhood. Ours sings that same two note repertoire ALL NIGHT LONG. Just outside our bedroom window! I didn’t think he was EVER going to find a girlfriend.

GreatGrandDaddyNo, theirs is more an angry, territorial chirp. (The hums are from the wings.)

Why do hummingbirds hum? Because they don’t know the words.

Several years ago there was a mockingbird doing his thing all night long from my neighbor’s tree. I would go outside and throw rocks at the tree. That got him to stop – for a few minutes. I wonder if my neighbor noticed the rocks in his backyard.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Rose am so sorry that the bird did not like your selection. :-((

TheSkulkerTo what do you object; ornithology, trivial facts? I didn’t notice any puns nor a need to lighten. We are discussing birds, they move though the air aerodynamically without mechanical help. Can you? If so, tell us how; if not, shut up.