For The Birds.

This morning half asleep and in a trance like state,

I thought of posting about birds.

Dont ask me why, I have just had a few random bird experiences.

So here I give you...the birds of my life:

1.I have this old memory of being at our cottage and going for canoe ride with my dad and older siblings to the island by our cabin. The island already had an exotic, sandy, undiscovered feeling to it and so the pelican carcass we found just added to the mystery. The pelican was not alone, it had apparently choked to death by trying to eat a too large fish. Our view was a fish skeleton in the (near) skeleton of this huge bird. I remember thinking that's pretty cool.

2. Also at our cabin...walking down the causeway to that same peticular island, I must have caused some panic to the little sparrow like birds who lived in the marshes lining the road. Suddenly tens of little teeny birds were dive bombing what seemed like my face. I think we ended up swimming home instead of trying to make it down this road of terrorizing birds. I'm sure my older sister will get a kick out of this one, seeing as how for the rest of my life she's never believed they were that scary. But they were.

3.Speaking of scary birds, she should be especially scared as the next memory has to do mostly with her and a very large swan. While camping at a particularly scenic small town riverside campground in Colmar, France, we noticed there were even swans swimming up the river. "How beautiful!" we thought. Let's feed them some bread crumbs! Well once we were out of bread crumbs they began honking and kinda backed off. I took a trip to les toilettes only to return 5 minutes later to find both my sister and best friend hiding frightened in our rental car with a big noisy swan honking and hissing at them for more food. Apparently they would prefer an entire loaf, not a few crumbs. It didn't take long between figuring out what happened and laughing for me to join them in the car. Eventually they backed off.

4. Time for a more pleasant memory. During a trial run canoe trip I took with my parents and youngest sister, we began to try to spot the odd bird noises we were hearing. Two in particular still stick out in my mind. One, I'm sure most nature lovers will have heard, what we called 'The Cell phone' Bird. It had a short quick trill of a call which sound almost exactly like a late ninties cell phone ringing. I think God must have had a sense of humour while creating that voice box. Especially since you only seem to hear it when you are miles and miles out of cell phone range. The other bird which was my favorite, I called "The R2D2 bird" and I swear to you, it sounded so close to the robot from star wars I was imagining C3P0 answering back by the end of the trip.

Sadly I had no recording devices, but sometimes better to leave nature in nature, even if it's just nature's audio track.

5.While I was trying to get back to sleep after the person who got up first NOISILY left the room, I heard what I thought was the phone beeping, but then I realized it was really just some bird outside. I'm sure it had partially to do with me being in that half asleep confusion of first light stage, but it took about 7 'beeps' before I figured out the truth. Those sneaky...avians.

So that's it. I'm sure if I thought longer and harder, I'd have more, but they wouldn't be as high quality as these ones. Feel free to share your own bird stories with me.