Bird Talk

Bird on Telephone Pole. (Tomasito photo, 2010)

I have been having more fun "talking" to some birds that come to visit.

There is a telephone pole about 50 feet from our apartment window and lately two doves and a mockingbird have been showing up on the top of the pole and singing.

Their songs are quite loud in our bedroom and I have been whistling back to the mockingbird and "cooing" back to the pigeons and they seem to be interested in talking back to me! They sometimes seem to "reply!"

The mockingbird occasionally even springs up, does a fluttering flip and returns to the pole to continue the "conversation". It is SO cute!

A little "inter species communication" is a good way to start the day!

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Motorcycles at McDonalds

Plenty Served! (Tomas photo, 2010)

Summertime.

Time for the bikers to cruise thru town--and they DO in their thundering hundreds.

Often they just roll by on Grand Street, but last Saturday I caught them at a local McDonald's having a fuel-stop.


ALL have big sparkly, polished bikes--it's a fun tribal outing for them. For us it's a peculiar parade.

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