[Tweeters] Great Blue Herons defending their feeding grounds

[Kevin Lucas]

Nancy,

Beautiful video, wonderful to see, and without having to drive there. No
apology needed for setting it to Pachelbel's Canon in D. Well done.

I loved that melody as a child, and was first aghast, then amused when in
the early seventies I heard the commercial for Burger King using that tune.
-~ Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us, have
it your way, at Burger King, have it your way at Burger King....
It sure did popularize the tune, and helped fit my classical music
upbringing into my high school world, so a combination not all bad.

Lately I've finally been able to return to enjoying birds while bicycling,
something I thought I'd never be able to do again. It helps me get my fix
of hearing and seeing birds with a much smaller turbine/lithium/carbon
footprint.

So here's a translation into Kevin -- my opined captioning for your video
lyrics:

Mud worms tickled
And you fed us
Slimy frogs and goldfish, let us
Thank the voice of Gretel, so far away

Asking us to drive less often
Habitat should not be coffin
Carbon footprint checklists
Skipped for today

Give us chance to breathe more freely
Gain due pride in sightings really
Contributing science
In positive ways

Habitat Day, Make it your thing
Habitat Day, Make it your think

Regards, with apologies,
Kevin Lucas
Yakima County, WA
https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/
*Qui tacet consentire videtur*


On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:36 AM Nancy Morrison <weedsrus1 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I was in the Sammamish River Slough recently when I witnessed two Great

> Blue Herons doing this wonderful slow motion dance. I have since learned

> that this is how they defend their feeding grounds. In all my years of

> watching GBH, I had never seen this display before. My apologies, but I

> could not avoid the temptation to put it to music.

>

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tii_We-3izs

>

> Nancy Morrison

>

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