Hey, that Lyrebird Suite is neat, Max.
Doug
On 10-Jan-07, at 4:49 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> While these emails are flowing on birdsong etc., I chanced on a recent
> book, by
> David Rothenberg, beautifully written, mostly American, but gets to
> Australia
> for the lyrebird...and has a website:
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> http://www.whybirdssing.com/
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> best from Max
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>> Jonathan Skinner has some lovely little bird-call poems, he's working
>> his way through all the American warblers.
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>> There are quite a few online at
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>> http://www.onedit.net/issue4/jonathans/jonathans.html
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>> 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.
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>> So when Jonathan's "Yellow Warbler" opens with the lines:
>>
>> sweet sweet sweet
>> lemony
>> sweet
>>
>> the audible stage is set straight off.
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>> --Knut
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