FEATHERY FRIDAY ON SATURDAY...
It started with a faint coo at 05:18 hours, when I thought I was dreaming. But he's definitely back. Yes! Flapper's back up the cherry-tree and has been advertising his presence with loud coo-cooing all morning!Whatever he's been up to (and he really did disappear yesterday) I have no idea of knowing. But he's cooing away so much I'm sure he's trying to tell me...
Forget German... French... Double-Dutch. Perhaps I should be learning to speak Pigeon!
There's a pigeon - probably more than one - but it loves to sit on my neighbor's roof and coo but it's just annoying. At the dollar store yesterday, I found these wonderful little puff pastry cups that would be perfect to hold a poultry stew.
ReplyDeleteGlad he is back safe :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's 18:21 hrs and he's cooing as we speak!
ReplyDeletehehe..you'd might like to call it a 'pidgeon language' *sorry..the linguist in me couldn't leave this unused*
ReplyDeleteI've been away from your blog for too long, bookmarks disappeared..and it's hard to remember the entire damn list. I'll be popping in now and then again :)
He's a cute dorky looking bird indeed.
ReplyDeletethis comment isn't pigeon related, but i wanted to tell you that i think spherical is one of the best pet names i have ever heard!
ReplyDeleteHey there Gleds. Do you find this bird endearing or annoying or a bit of both?
ReplyDeleteI was reading some of your back posts since I haven't been here for a while and admiring your writing. You do have that gift and I hope someday you can get your life sorted out so you can really put it to good use.
Good luck with your challenges.
ARJAN: long time no hear, I no I dropped by your place again when I saw your comment at a friend of a friend's (can't remember where though)... haven't you done all those exams yet? This summer ~ surely??
ReplyDeleteWAT: yeah they do look a bit gawky. Maybe that has something to do with the white pigeon being used as the international symbol for peace. They wouldn't look too cool packing a AK47s!!
STACY: thank you. Spherical was very happy with her name (so I believe)
JMB: you're right, the constant cooing is starting to get at me a bit. They are NOT the same as ordinary pigeons. That coo-coo is a distinctive sound of high summer days... Flapper has taken up position on the TV aerial about 10 houses down, so I only hear him when I go down the shop now..*!*
Yeah I would love to get paid to write... if only!
@Gledwood: probably at Nicole (mobile)'sm :)
ReplyDeleteI only have to finish my Bachelor thesis..and then finally holidays.
You're at Uni now?
ReplyDeleteWhat are you doing? An American-style Liberal Arts degree, where you choose the major after enrolling? Or a British-style BA or BSc Hons... in what? All those languages you're studying? Surely Hungarian is difficult enough?... What else was it? Spanish? Did you say you're doing German? Wir koennten uns schreiben auf Deutsch? Is that right? We could write to one another in German? My German is so furchtbar, I wouldn't know...
yup (even worse..it's 8pm, and really still physically at Uni..). I think at the moment it's more like the American styled BA..you enroll and you can mix and match a Major and Minor.
ReplyDeleteBut when I started they just started up the more simple Bachelor Masters system (3 years BA, 1 to 2 years MA, depending on which kind of MA you enrolled in).
I'm studying Communication Information Sciences in The Netherlands. Basically everything from pr & marketing to language and communication advice.
So no Hungarian, just Dutch and an optional foreign language. I know my way around English and German and I know some very basic French but that's about it.
If I remember correctly you knew some Dutch didn't you?
And your German wasn't bad, I don't think there was any error if you avoided the umlaut.
ReplyDeleteToch wel een beetje, ne hoor!
ReplyDeleteIk heb nu een reactie bij uw blog geplaceerd!
Deze waar het reactie:
Hi Arjan, thanks for the comments you left at mine today... why did i think you were Hugarian and still at school when you bent NEDERLANDER ~ ik weet niet!!
Maar ik lerne een beetje Nederlands toe praaten. Dat sprek it maar niet lekker. Mijn Nederlands is pijnlijk!
So are you studying a BSc in computer engineering...? Is that it? Please let me know I am retarted and I'm sorry for thinking you're from Hungaria. I DO know someone of old from Hungaria, but his name is Ropi, not Arjan and Ropi never lived in a tent at some music festival seemingly for weeks on end about 3 summers ago...
You did live in a tent at some music festival, right? Was it in Denmark? Was it Dance Valley? It was somewhere Teutonic, I am sure of that...
O well I got the "sciences" bit right in the title... does this mean you can go out and become a high flying manager now (or v soon)?
I once met someone who was a "technical author", this meant he was a writer of instruction manuals.
I think a company like Hitachi left him with a brand new VCR for a week with the most elementary instructions. It was up to him to get the thing working, plus to write a booklet in plain English explaining how it worked!!
You got any idea what you wanna do once you get tipped into the big wide world, post degree~~??
Don't worry at the time it's only 7:15pm here...
Wij konnten onz op Duits schrijven, maar mijn Duits is echt tragiek!!
(Does that make any sense??)
Umlaute!
ReplyDeleteUmlaute sind nicht meine starke Seite!
Besonders u-umlaut!
Zum Englischsprechender macht das fast kein Unterschied; wir haben kein "ue" ... och! Doch! In Schische Aussprache, sagt man "ue" und nicht "u"... das ist mal wahr...
Glad he is back. Have a good weekend.
ReplyDeleteCooo!!
ReplyDeleteput some seed out and he'll stay!
ReplyDeleteGlad he's back in his tree.
ReplyDeleteAbout those African starlings, I'm wondering if they are the same bird I saw in large flocks in Paris. I'll have to look back over my photos*!*
Yeah I think I might start feeding Flapper. I still find myself saving crumbe/etc for the roborovskis... now I know who to save up for... thank you!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether starlings are just feathery gypsies, or whether they actually fly between two points, north and south and live in the same places for months on end?
Whenever I notice them they appear to be in enormous flocks that only stay a few days before they're off...
i wonder what pigeon taste like, is it like chicken and if so why don't we eat pigeons more? i mean they are all over the place, throw a few bread crumbs out on the side walk, wait, get a net to catch them, and dinner time.
ReplyDeleteI think the Queen eats pigeon. On TV I hear chefs talking about stuff being "gamey" ... grouse, pheasant... also cooing wood piegons are all game. There was a butcher by my old house selling "brace" of pheasants, which means a pair. They were always covered in feathers rather than nude, due to some obscure law...
ReplyDeleteNo I've never had it either, but I'd prefer wood to street. Rather have pigeons scented with the delicate aromas of cherries, pine cones and fruits of the forest than ones that survive on KFC twizzler meals, chocolate bagels and McDonalds cast-offs!!