…than the sound of some of the native birds in our front yard. Actually, some of the native birds sound very much like cars crashing.
Why am I telling you this? Well, because, quite frankly, I’m a little jealous. Kim posted about a sweet little pirate bird, a sparrow, who serenaded her quite sweetly outside her window while she worked. At the moment in which I read of her beautifully melodic distraction, I was also being serenaded from outside, not so dulcetly. *sigh*
Allow me to demonstrate by introducing you to some of the birds in our front yard.
The Maggies:
- The Magpie
The Magpies don’t look too pretty but make one of the nicest sounds of all our little visitors. My boys like to talk to them as the handfeed them by gurgling water and cooing simultaneously. It works. The magpies reply. They sound like this.
Our pretty birds, the Rainbow Lorikeets, sound rather well…let’s just say looks can be deceiving.
Tell me what you think of their song.
Next we have the Sulphur Crested Cockatoos:
- Sulphur Crested Cockatoos
These guys look pretty and take part in all kinds of clownish fun. However, they are also known as ‘The Screechers’ and if you listen here you will discover why. *sigh*
Wait it gets better…
The birds that truly drive me insane are the Corellas. Gah! They are so very, very grating.
Poor little guys. They are rather unattractive too. They look like they’ve been beaten up and are constantly sporting blackeyes. They probably are the bullied birds of the burbs and when you hear their song, cry, screams, you’ll understand why they probably have been beaten up by the other birds. Gah! And that was a tame sound file! Often we will have MASSES of these little guys in the gum trees out the front all screaming together. They sound like brakes screeching, metal twisting against metal and wicked spectators laughing at the scene of a gruesome accident. Actually, the sound of a car crash would be more soothing. These are the birds I was listening to while Kim was being serenaded by a little pirate-ish sparrow.
*sigh*
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