I like Starlings

[Paper Hearts]

Starlings are usually thought of as a "pest" bird but I like them. They have a really sick sounding way of singing that is most like an electric guitar simply playing the off beat to something...they take over the nests of other birds for a living. -People think they're pests and thusly, it's been made legal to kill them but I don't see the reasoning to it-I mean, it's not like they have nuclear missles or anything, like we do...we are really more pestfull creatures than anything.

To me the most depressing sound available is that of birds singing in the morning...it really just means the night's over and it's time to wake, etc-but not if it's a starling's singing which awakens you-if it's a starling you hear, it's really sort of "punk rock" because it makes you think about the futilism of it all, it makes you consider the lives of these birds and so the worthless characters of everything and for a moment you're a perfect fatalist, you care about nothing and all your suffering melts away.

Anyway, it's not a starling's fault they are the way they are-it's not like they can change.

Yes, I love these pirate birds.

[Brenda Starrr]

You're so funny!

[Paper Hearts]

Thanx but I'm serious!

[Brenda Starrr]

Honey, I know that you are. That's what's so funny about it.

[Head Wreck]

when you have a forest literally across the road from your house and your trying to get some sleep at 5am when you need to be up at 7. you hate them.

otherwise its pretty cool to wake up to them

[Brenda Starrr]

STARLING HATER!!!!!!!!

[Paper Hearts]

when you have a forest literally across the road from your house and your trying to get some sleep at 5am when you need to be up at 7.  you hate them.

otherwise its pretty cool to wake up to them

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-But how's their song different than the other birds' singing, in the forest, other than they're chirp is like a Gretsch as opposed to a water whistle-esque panzy noise?

[Head Wreck]

lot of seaguls or rooks here.

KRAAAUK or CAAUW is the mosty common sound. dawn chorus seems to be a nice put together free of tone deaf roadies and bikers joining in, with the starling taking place of eddie van halen

[Paper Hearts]

lol.

[Brenda Starrr]

"Hello, Clariiiiiiice."

Sorry. I had to.

[Paper Hearts]

lol.

[Brenda Starrr]

Everyone else is jealous because they didn't think of it first.

[Paper Hearts]

[Brenda Starrr]

[Paper Hearts]

That's not right, Brenda.

[float]

very clever brenda

[Paper Hearts]

Yaaaay starlings!

[mallochai]

I like magpies. if starlings are punk, then magpies must be a punk-goth crossover, since ravens are obviously the goth du jour bird. they're scroungers with black and white feathers. not much for singing though.

[Brenda Starrr]

That's not right, Brenda.

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What do you mean?

[Amerist]

Starlings can talk.

I know a starling named Chibi in Arizona, taken care of for years by my kaywng, walk into the room and she'll greet thee, say her name, and ask how thour't doing.

I'm chiiibiiiii... Hi, how are you?

So can ravens. Scout, the Raven, holds meowing discussions with the house's youngest kitten and will call her from across the house. Suurrrgaaa... and the cat comes running.

[mallochai]

ravens can DEFINATELY talk. the ravens up here are small child sized, and will sit around and imitate you. it's awesome, but in a very strangely disturbing way. the first time you hear a raven try to say "stupid cunt" you wonder about the mysteries of nature.

[Paper Hearts]

My cat makes chirping noises at birds but I think it's to lure them closer to her so that she can kill them.

[Brenda Starrr]

Your cat does that, too? OMG....Sunny talks to them!!

[Paper Hearts]

I've noticed a few cats doing that-like I said, I believe it's because they are trying to trick the birds into coming closer-sort of like a duck hunter making duck calls, hunting ducks.

[Brenda Starrr]

It's so funny! She gets in our bedroom window and just chirps like mad!