“Sorry if this is a bit garbled, but he only had time to dictate it once, what with all the laser guns blasting and the space ships whizzing around and the swords that go vwooom. I don’t know what it says, but I’m sure your protocol droid can translate it for you. You do have a protocol droid, right?”
Never go anywhere without mine, Murray C.
Bird really does sound like R2!
I bet they could have a great conversation!
My protocol droid is, uh, in the shop. Another entry in the Mike’s Brain to Science Submission Folder.
I’d watch this version of Star Wars…
Starling Warblers?
(I dunno what kind of birb this is.)
I’d enjoy having a bird come and sing to me. I do have song birds that visit our feeders. Many times, loud Blue Jays squawking in the tree by our window.
My mom told me there’s these three juvenile crows that all try to use the suet feeder at once. Any time one of them moves the feeder swings so hard the others can’t eat, so it pretty much just gyrates while the crows all scream at each other.
She has thus far been unable to get video.
That sounds fabulous. I would LOVE to see video of that. Since it’s crows they may well come up with a solution to the problem.
I needed to know where this back yard is (especially after that late pan to the hillside), so I used the “Watch on YouTube” option to find the description. “[O]ur back veranda … overlooks a reserve in East Gosford, NSW, Australia. … This … is [a] juvenile Grey Shrike-Thrush, a native Australian bird.”
I thought it might be Australia but I was confused by the absence of wombats and terrifying spiders.
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Thank you, Michael for your impeccable research!😛
You’re quite welcome. This one was easy compared to … what was it, the goats on the side of the wall? Did that turn out to be a dam? Anyway, this one wasn’t tricky like some. At first I thought (this seems to have occurred to Alice Shortcake, also) that it hardly seemed like Australia when nothing was trying to kill anybody, but actually the wombat and quokka videos are short on death threats, too — not counting quokkas causing people to become ded from the qte.