tiompan wrote: Markoid wrote: Usually a cry for help, shelter and for food.
That's bird calls , quite different from bird song .Difficult to judge between help and "Gimme shleter " , with the former being common , more likely , and subsuming the latter .
Why do wood pidgeons have the same call? It could be a procreation thing I suppose.
I wrote a poem once about songbirds.
Here it is
AND THEY SAY THERE’S NO SONGBIRDS
ARETHA WOKE ME UP THIS MORNIN’ AND MARY TOO
BILLIE WAS RIGHT BY MY WINDOW BUT I WISH IT WERE YOU
MARSHA WAS THERE ALSO BUT I JUST STOOD AND STARED
AS I WISH IT WERE YOUR VOICE THAT I’D HEARD
JONI WAS IN THE BATHROOM BRUSHING HER TEETH
AND WHEN I SAW JANIS THROWIN UP IT RAISED ME
TO MY FEET.
NICO TOOK THE RUBBISH OUT AND THREW IT IN THE BIN
AND SAID TO ME DEEPLY THAT LOU WAS IN SIN
ELLA SWEPT THE CARPET AND UNDERNEATH THE FLOOR
THEN I PHONED LIZ FRAZER TO COME AND DO SOME MORE
BUT I WISH IT WERE YOU TO COME KEEP HOUSE FOR ME AND
AND THEY SAY THERE’S NO SONGBIRDS
ARETHA WOKE ME UP THIS MORNIN’ AND MARY TOO
BILLIE WAS RIGHT BY MY WINDOW BUT I WISH IT WERE YOU
MARSHA WAS THERE ALSO BUT I JUST STOOD AND STARED
AS I WISH IT WERE YOUR VOICE THAT I’D HEARD
JONI WAS IN THE BATHROOM BRUSHING HER TEETH
AND WHEN I SAW JANIS THROWIN UP IT RAISED ME
TO MY FEET.
THEN I KICKED MADONNA OUT
WHO HAS NEVER HELD A DUSTER AND GAVE YOU A
‘CLEANING’ THAT NO MEN COULD MUSTER.AND YOU SANG…
APPLE BLOSSOM- MY LITTLE POSSUM XXX
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