What Are Birds Actually Saying? | A Nature Lover's Guide 

From one nature lover to another, thank you Casey 🦅

I really enjoyed this insightful presentation. It reminded me of a book that left its mark on me a long time ago, “The Tracker” by Tom Brown Jr. 🐾

My local park is not often noisy from bird song , the amount of song thats heard when i enter , rises as several species resident in the park , and some will stay near , 'talking' with anyone willing to engage them . Same thing with farm animals , and some captive 'wild ' animals , will communicate . Playing Dr Dolitte , is a joy , when the residents of the park come hang around for a while - soon as someone else comes along , they stop singing , temporarily . Marine life will come close , with some allowing touch , which is realy inquisitive on their part and rewarding to the human .

A bird doesn't sing because it has the answers, it sings because it has the songs.

Animals make sounds from their soul

I love my local birds, i usually hand out some cashews to the ones interested. The jackdaws follow me closely, often landing next to me or just ahead of me, sometimes they fly slightly above me and they will give me a quick "kaw" if they think i haven't seen them. While the crows sit on higher perches, but they also sometimes hop up to me, which looks pretty funny, because they're much less approachable than the jackdaws, but they do really like the cashews, so they are always kinda hunched down ready to fly off at any sudden movement. Same for the magpies, they are the middle bird of the 3, they are slightly above jackdaws, but beneath crows, so they tend to be very sharp and quick, to beat the jackdaws and get as much before the crows arrive. There is one that follows me around in quite a big area, and it often makes a gentle noise to get my attention when it hid itself near me. One of the magpies actually still makes the sound of a youngster and quickly flaps its wings as if to tell me to feed it, but it is independent enough to swoop down and grab some cashews, so it's not actually helpless or waiting for its parents to feed it, i guess it figures that the "feed me" sound also works on humans, haha. They're all pretty discrete in general, very quiet and stealthy, to avoid the seagulls getting wind of the cashews, because they ruin everything, haha. As big as the crows are, seagulls just don't care, and some seagulls here are the ones you'd see at sea, they're huge and even the crows bow out when they arrive. But the funny thing is that i have decoded some of their screams and yelps, because everytime when i think there's no seagull around and i put down some cashews, i hear the same "Yaaaahh!!" noise, quite literally sounding like excited kids, and then i know that some seagull spotted me placing the cashews. And that sound in turn 'activates' the rest of the group and it quickly becomes a cacophony, and most of it just seems to be territorial disputes, the bodylanguage and constant pecking at each other, i think seagulls are quite easy to read, hah. Pigeons are also nice to be around with, they often remind me of nosy, but sweet elderly ladies. Their wings make a funny noise as well and their cooing and pirouettes are fun to look at. I have a favorite pigeon, and it seems to kinda travel on its own for most of the time, because it usually randomly pops up when i turn around. There are a few others that approach me without the rest of the herd around, but i cannot recognize them that well individually, as opposed to my favorite, that is mostly white and only has 1 toe on each foot, which is why i call it "Stumpy". It always surprises me how gentle they are when eating, i mean, they slap each other and push each other away, but i mean when pecking some peanuts from my hand, you hardly feel any impact of that beak and they never catch my skin, they're super accurate. Which makes me think of that pigeon-powered bomb back in the day... i can see how they got the idea. I recently had a pigeon in my house for a week, when i found it weakened and with an injured leg, it behaved perfectly and never freaked out on me and seemed fully recovered by the end of the workweek and flew off in the morning, which was pretty satisfying to see. Same thing with a sparrow a couple years ago, it got better after a few days and it flew off, hopefully they're both still alive. Sparrows are super cute, and they also recognize me pretty well, often times they come flying towards me when i haven't even spotted them yet. And then there's the heron that comes flying towards me for a can of tuna.. and the swans and the coots and the ducks, it's quite the circus. I would love to be able to interact with the cormorants, i always loved the way they looked, they remind me a bit of Wile E Coyote sometimes, with their almost comical ugly appearance, haha, but it's great to see them swim, same for the smaller grebes.

I think my hikes through the forest just took on a whole new dimension.

Birds aren't real, tho.

This is a pretty bad show