Gayle,

What a delightful little video! When my conure heard it, he had to get in on the call and response act, too. 🌞 Thank you so much for sharing it and the information!

Sandra


On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 1:06 PM Gayle via STARMANET <starmanet@starmanet.com> wrote:
Hi Sandra!  Good to reconnect with you too!  Yeah, using your voice is one of the main secrets of the book.  Birds actually enjoy our voices the way we enjoy theirs (high-pitched voices, like women's or children's, or a man talking falsetto).  When we are outside having conversations, birds may perch around us listening to us.  And, like your owl, they can answer us back if we answer their calls.  Of course, sometimes they may ignore us, because calls like owl hoots are mainly a way for mates to locate each other and the owl may be thinking more about that.  But sometimes they may stop and talk to us anyway.  Flickers, same thing, here's a vid I caught of a flicker answering me back when I answered its call.  This call is also used between mates or between parents and youngsters to locate each other, so flickers will often ignore me when I answer them because they have other things on their mind, but sometimes they  reply, and even if they ignore me in the moment, over time the flickers get friendlier when I regularly answer their calls.

Conversation with a flicker


Love and Blue Light,
Gayle

El domingo, 26 de marzo de 2023, 07:11:18 a. m. PDT, Sandra Smith <smithsl752@gmail.com> escribió:


Gayle, it's so good to reconnect with you!  I surely look forward to reading the book.  Last evening I was out gardening and heard a barred owl calling from the other side of the lake. I called back to him, and this happened a couple of times. It's such a joyous thing when this happens. I hope/trust he picked up on the joy, as well. Thanks for providing this gift of connection between our various life forms on this planet! 

Love and Blue Light,
Sandra


On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 2:40 AM Gayle via STARMANET <starmanet@starmanet.com> wrote:
Hi y'all!  Sorry I've hardly been around here, this is an account I hardly use.

Jill, "talking" (whistling or singing) to birds is one of the things the book talks about!  The book started out with the intention of communicating that food isn't the omly thing we have to offer birds, they like the sounds we make as well.  But it just kept expanding from there.

I want to direct fellow STARMAN fans to the photo credits.  Most of the 125 photos in the book are by me, but a few are rom other (free to use) sources on the web, and see who spots something in the photo credits first.

Love and Blue Light,
Gayle

El sábado, 25 de marzo de 2023, 09:51:23 a. m. PDT, Todd Andrews via STARMANET <starmanet@starmanet.com> escribió:


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