I once got stopped outside the place I was going for breakfast when a grackle perched in a scrubby orange tree in front of Waffle House and launched into an elaborate routine. He had plenty to say, and he made sure the world heard all of it.
If you’ve been around grackles, you know that no sound they can make could ever be described as musical, but even though I don’t speak bird I could recognize that his performance had structure and logic behind it.
I couldn’t help sticking around for the entire show.
I once got stopped outside the place I was going for breakfast when a grackle perched in a scrubby orange tree in front of Waffle House and launched into an elaborate routine. He had plenty to say, and he made sure the world heard all of it.
If you’ve been around grackles, you know that no sound they can make could ever be described as musical, but even though I don’t speak bird I could recognize that his performance had structure and logic behind it.
I couldn’t help sticking around for the entire show.