Saturday, May 24, 2008

Pew Pew!

We always know when it's 5:30am here. The little house finches outside go crazy and start chirping up a storm for about 20 minutes. My favorite has been one that sings a longish but recognizable tune that ends in, "what?" alternating with that same tune that ends in, "pew pew!"

Big dork that I am, I fell in love with this one and have been bummed that I haven't heard it the past 5 days. Some other fun songs, but not pew pew. Well, this morning pew pew was back! And has added some interesting new phrases. Pew pew also seems to be accompanied by someone who has a gift for imitation, as I keep hearing something that sounds a lot like a finch trying to be a rooster. Or Beaker.

I love the little finches. What do yours say?

4 comments:

Jaya said...
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Jaya said...

We don't really have finches in the depths of Allston, but there are lots of urban pigeons. They coo, and Lolly chirps back at them through the window. As far as songs go, we're more likely to get drunk college kids singing Top 40 at barbaric hours of the night. Sigh.

Roni said...

Ours gather in small clouds, and hover within the branches of trees in the business districts. They throw their collective, screeching thrum off of the glass towers like so much freight train through fog.

Impressive little things when given critical mass, indeed.

SWE said...

Ooooh-drunken top 40. I'm so glad those particular finches don't live near me. Pigeons can be kinda peaceful in their own way, though. Andy's old neighborhood in Chicago had wild quaker parakeets, and they put drunken college students to shame without even trying.

How do kiwi finches manage to hover on bicycles? Didn't know Auckland did Critical Mass, but am not surprised to find it's among birds rather than people...