Knut,thank you also. :)
KS
On 10/01/07, Knut Mork Skagen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Max,
>
> > Thanks, Kasper. I still hope to develop it further.
> > [What is it birds sing? I used to ask my students what they heard, so I
> could
> > add to the already standard cock-a-doodle-do, etc.
> > They seldom helped me, but the Gould League here, ie bird-naturalists,
> put out a
> > list, part of which goes:
>
> Jonathan Skinner has some lovely little bird-call poems, he's working
> his way through all the American warblers.
>
> There are quite a few online at
>
> http://www.onedit.net/issue4/jonathans/jonathans.html
>
> He introduced me to the very entertaining tradition of coining phrases
> that sound like bird calls as a memory device. Calls like: "Teakettle,
> teakettle, teakettle;" "Beer beer beer bill me!," "Are you awake? Me
> toooooo." There are whole bird guides full of these, but of course the
> most fun is to be had going out to listen and inventing them for
> yourself.
>
> So when Jonathan's "Yellow Warbler" opens with the lines:
>
> sweet sweet sweet
> lemony
> sweet
>
> the audible stage is set straight off.
>
> --Knut
>
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