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RE: Blue Bird of Happiness?
And lucky you.. you can capture its pictures so well😉 so it is really look like a bird! I guess you can't get the mocking birds pictures because everything happened so fast .. uhhmm.. I can spend a whole day to watch birds 😊
The scrub jay was a bold fellow and he didn't mind me taking his picture. The mockingbirds are more shy. I think because they are young. They do a funny courting dance - they just hop up and down, hop, hop, hop, in one place in front of another bird. But I have seen three of the young ones hop in front of each other, each taking a turn. Are they confused about which is a boy and which a girl? Are they practicing, like learning how to dance? I would like to capture that with my camera but if they see me they take their dancing elsewhere. The adult mockingbirds are fierce! They will chase cats away, flying and pecking at them. I have seen them chase away a big raven too, and even sometimes people! But I think that is when they have young in their nests.
I think they're practicing to mock on each other during their young age..LOL, I don;t think we have mocking birds here in Índonesia, I read that mockingbirds can record 200 songs through their lifetime
Practicing for their courtship in the spring is a good guess.
I don't know how many songs our birds know but a possible 200 doesn't surprise me. Their natural voice is a high screech but when they get to singing it can be very beautiful. One pair makes a nest in a tree near the window where I use my computer and they know many songs. They will sing for hours. I don't know what their message is but they seem happy with it.
My mother told me that here if you hear a bird singing in the night it is a mockingbird. There are other night birds but they don't sing. If I didn't know that I would think there were many varieties of birds singing outside my window!
Do you have myna birds there? My uncle had one that learned some human speech. A few words but its favorite things was to whistle for the dog and then make a human laugh when the dog showed up. :-)
Myna bird? I think we called it Beo here, yess! Somehow a bird living next to my shop screeming my husband name's sometimes 😂😂😂 the nightangle is a bird who could record to 300 songs and mockingbirds 200.. we call it here "singing bird" though for me it sound like chirping. 😊
Aahh.. talking about birds.. I still curious what's the night bird that somehow stop screeching near my house at night after I saw it when I came back from jogja last september, I saw it when we're walking back to the hotel when we're in Jogja, I told my hubby "is it possible the bird is following us?" He didn't say anything. But I still heard it every night when we're in Jogja. Then.. When we arrived at the bus pool from jogja, I saw it again screeching then stand at the highest telecom tower building at the opposite of us, told husband about it.. then I wave my hand to it, told that we're save... and since then, I never heard it screeching around my house anymore. That's strange right?
That IS strange - to hear the bird every night when you are away from home, then hear it again when you first arrived back? Maybe a guardian bird? I'd like to know what kind of bird it was too.
A bird that calls your husband's name? LOL So, it is imitating your voice? :-)
I love the name beo for a bird. Once at a friend's house I heard a beautiful bird call. It sounded like water bubbling over river stones. She said it was a nightingale. Also near her house live hundreds of wild parrots! Probably from a couple that escaped their cages years ago because it isn't a natural parrot territory. They don't come by my house even though it is only 10 miles away. We only have common birds here!
I heard that bird every night since I move to Pamulang but I have never seen it. I tried many times to find it.. I thought it was a screech of my neighbour's love birds.. but love birds never chirped at night. It just screeching once or two right after the sun goes down until near dawn. When we're in Jogja it showed itself while screeching and flew away.. I just saw a black bird. Then when we arrived about 6.am I can see it greyish and big as my palm. Since then until today.. it never appeared anymore.
Well we have some beautiful "Beo" here and it is kind of threatened birds which mean you can't get it out from its habitat without any legal permission. But somehow, people still have it😢, like parrot.. it can be trained to speak.
So now you have seen the night singing bird but not know the name of it? It sounds like it likes you, so maybe it will come back? But if it stays away that is a mystery!
And I still haven't resolve the mysteri.. never seen or heard it anymore.. it doesn't singing but screaming I guess.. a single tweet.. but repeated for 3 or 5 after 2-3 minutes, then flew away. I thought it was a crow, but crow is black.. while its not. Crow doesn't have that high pitch but nice screaming. I wish that I can find out more later.