What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

A handsome black bird has taken up residence in a shrub right next to the
house about 4m from my bedroom window. It has been sitting there most of
the time for the last three days sometimes making an generic 'cheep cheep'
call that is not very distinctive. Then yesterday it experimentally made a
'wurra wurra wuura' call which I recognised. I headed straight for the bird
book and there is his portrait - a male Koel. We have called him Nat of
course.

This bird is frequently heard much more than seen in east coast gardens. It
is a migratory cuckoo that mates in spring around here and winters in the
far north. The mating call, which carries for hundreds of metres, can be
given all day and night. Is the most irritating insistent crescendo of
'wooooooooop wooooooooop WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP' over and over and over again.
If he starts that in the middle of the night I am going to cut down the
shrub.

Nat is very wet and sorry for himself at the moment (it's raining yea!) and
hasn't said a thing for hours. I wonder if he could be bribed to stay
quiet, perhaps some slices of mango, a big fat grub.....

David

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
A handsome black bird has taken up residence in a shrub right next to the
house about 4m from my bedroom window. It has been sitting there most of
the time for the last three days sometimes making an generic 'cheep cheep'
call that is not very distinctive. Then yesterday it experimentally made a
'wurra wurra wuura' call which I recognised. I headed straight for the
bird book and there is his portrait - a male Koel. We have called him Nat
of course.

This bird is frequently heard much more than seen in east coast gardens.
It is a migratory cuckoo that mates in spring around here and winters in
the far north. The mating call, which carries for hundreds of metres, can
be given all day and night. Is the most irritating insistent crescendo of
'wooooooooop wooooooooop WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP' over and over and over again.
If he starts that in the middle of the night I am going to cut down the
shrub.

Nat is very wet and sorry for himself at the moment (it's raining yea!)
and hasn't said a thing for hours. I wonder if he could be bribed to stay
quiet, perhaps some slices of mango, a big fat grub.....

David

Or a hose if he is quiet when wet???????

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
A handsome black bird has taken up residence in a shrub right next to the
house about 4m from my bedroom window. It has been sitting there most of
the time for the last three days sometimes making an generic 'cheep cheep'
call that is not very distinctive. Then yesterday it experimentally made a
'wurra wurra wuura' call which I recognised. I headed straight for the
bird book and there is his portrait - a male Koel. We have called him Nat
of course.

This bird is frequently heard much more than seen in east coast gardens.
It is a migratory cuckoo that mates in spring around here and winters in
the far north. The mating call, which carries for hundreds of metres, can
be given all day and night. Is the most irritating insistent crescendo of
'wooooooooop wooooooooop WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP' over and over and over again.
If he starts that in the middle of the night I am going to cut down the
shrub.

Nat is very wet and sorry for himself at the moment (it's raining yea!)
and hasn't said a thing for hours. I wonder if he could be bribed to stay
quiet, perhaps some slices of mango, a big fat grub.....

David

Ernie Dingo

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

g'dau david,

yep and she very drab looking, and when in company if you have fruit
of any sort growing they will be wanting to eat it, very sneeky birds
that fly low and sit right in the middle of the trees making them
harder to see.

in rural i used to listen for them as they set up for a visit then
come out and shoosh them of just as they flew in, him from one
direction her from another.

comon name storm birds probably because their call was heard just
before a storm occured at sometime or other.

we have a male in our sector at present still calling for a mate.

if you grow your own fruit, tomato's whatever (they don't go for
citrus) just the soft sweet stuff, then i'd be saying distract
him/them from your garden, i also think as like most or all of the
cuckoo family they lay their eggs in other native birds nest by
dumping the native birds eggs out and laying theirs in there instead.



On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:38:48 +1100, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

snipped
With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

Kamahl?

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 +0000, ted wrote:

wrote:

Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some find
it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to have
dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no wrong
in making jokes like this still in 2009

but is would be okay to ask what is white, male and sings in the garden
with a reply of John Denver (or some idol idiot)?

Get over it folks. Trying not to be rascist by stridently not describing
non-white peoples skin is rascism. You are just showing that you still
categorise people by skin colour, rather than accept it as a natural
descriptor.

Anyway, technically his skin colour isn't black, but some where in that
brown to olive range.

To get back to the subject, I'm glad his bird is a Koel. Far better than
frigging black birds(bright yellow beak) who scratch up all your
seedlings.

Are tennis ball guns illegal or not sold? My throwing arm is no good
anymore.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

terryc wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 +0000, ted wrote:

wrote:

Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some find
it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to have
dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no wrong
in making jokes like this still in 2009

but is would be okay to ask what is white, male and sings in the garden
with a reply of John Denver (or some idol idiot)?

Get over it folks. Trying not to be rascist by stridently not describing
non-white peoples skin is rascism. You are just showing that you still
categorise people by skin colour, rather than accept it as a natural
descriptor.

Anyway, technically his skin colour isn't black, but some where in that
brown to olive range.

To get back to the subject, I'm glad his bird is a Koel. Far better than
frigging black birds(bright yellow beak) who scratch up all your
seedlings.

Are tennis ball guns illegal or not sold? My throwing arm is no good
anymore.
why not just a male that sings in the garden why the colour overtones
and don't be so naive you know exactly what was meant, but lets pretend
its nothing and then all act amazed when there are race riots smh or
the nazis are back with their racist propaganda and all sit round
shaking our heads saying how the hell did this happen.

abigail

abigail

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

terryc wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 +0000, ted wrote:

wrote:

Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some find
it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to have
dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no wrong
in making jokes like this still in 2009

but is would be okay to ask what is white, male and sings in the garden
with a reply of John Denver (or some idol idiot)?

Get over it folks. Trying not to be rascist by stridently not describing
non-white peoples skin is rascism. You are just showing that you still
categorise people by skin colour, rather than accept it as a natural
descriptor.

Anyway, technically his skin colour isn't black, but some where in that
brown to olive range.

To get back to the subject, I'm glad his bird is a Koel. Far better than
frigging black birds(bright yellow beak) who scratch up all your
seedlings.

Are tennis ball guns illegal or not sold? My throwing arm is no good
anymore.
ps a blind eye is not always the answer

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:41:33 +0000, ted wrote:


Are tennis ball guns illegal or not sold? My throwing arm is no good
anymore.
ps a blind eye is not always the answer

I was thinking more of a dead black bird to mulch my garden.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:41:10 +0000, ted wrote:


why not just a male that sings in the garden

Because the list of male birds that sing in my garden would have more
names than you have years. YMMV

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

"ted" wrote in message
terryc wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 +0000, ted wrote:

wrote:
Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some find
it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to have
dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no wrong
in making jokes like this still in 2009

but is would be okay to ask what is white, male and sings in the garden
with a reply of John Denver (or some idol idiot)?

Get over it folks. Trying not to be rascist by stridently not describing
non-white peoples skin is rascism. You are just showing that you still
categorise people by skin colour, rather than accept it as a natural
descriptor.

Anyway, technically his skin colour isn't black, but some where in that
brown to olive range.

To get back to the subject, I'm glad his bird is a Koel. Far better than
frigging black birds(bright yellow beak) who scratch up all your
seedlings. Are tennis ball guns illegal or not sold? My throwing arm is
no good anymore.
why not just a male that sings in the garden why the colour overtones and
don't be so naive you know exactly what was meant, but lets pretend its
nothing and then all act amazed when there are race riots smh or the nazis
are back with their racist propaganda and all sit round shaking our heads
saying how the hell did this happen.

Well said Abigail.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

terryc wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:41:10 +0000, ted wrote:


why not just a male that sings in the garden

Because the list of male birds that sing in my garden would have more
names than you have years. YMMV
the ONLY two names that came up in this thread are kamahl and ernie
dingo, now terry tell me again that is not racist or has racial
overtones then justify it with your oh well attitude. You may find it
so terribly boring but i wonder when they finish with the others and
they go after you if you will be so glib then. One would hope you are
not met with the same inane comments if the shoe was on the other foot.

Abigail

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:16:20 +0000, ted wrote:

terryc wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:41:10 +0000, ted wrote:


why not just a male that sings in the garden

Because the list of male birds that sing in my garden would have more
names than you have years. YMMV
the ONLY two names that came up in this thread are kamahl and ernie
dingo,
Where was Ernie?
Is he a singer?
And I did post "John Denver".

now terry tell me again that is not racist

Well, it actually tells you a lot about the posters age, nationality and
background. Just as your posts tell me a lot about mental state.


Okay, I You may find it
so terribly boring but i wonder when they finish with the others and
they go after you if you will be so glib then. One would hope you are
not met with the same inane comments if the shoe was on the other foot.

WTF? Time for a reality check. The P2P sources have a movie called "Star
Wars - The environmentalist version" . Download it, have a laugh and then
feel sad that it is so true.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

terryc wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:16:20 +0000, ted wrote:

terryc wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:41:10 +0000, ted wrote:


why not just a male that sings in the garden
Because the list of male birds that sing in my garden would have more
names than you have years. YMMV
the ONLY two names that came up in this thread are kamahl and ernie
dingo,
Where was Ernie?
Is he a singer?
And I did post "John Denver".

now terry tell me again that is not racist

Well, it actually tells you a lot about the posters age, nationality and
background. Just as your posts tell me a lot about mental state.


Okay, I You may find it
so terribly boring but i wonder when they finish with the others and
they go after you if you will be so glib then. One would hope you are
not met with the same inane comments if the shoe was on the other foot.

WTF? Time for a reality check. The P2P sources have a movie called "Star
Wars - The environmentalist version" . Download it, have a laugh and then
feel sad that it is so true.



i am sorry for you as you just don't get it you really don't but back
you go to your own small world and as for my state of mind are you sure
you aren't doing some mirroring there

abigail

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:57:55 +0000, ted wrote:


i am sorry for you as you just don't get it you really don't but back
you go to your own small world and as for my state of mind are you sure
you aren't doing some mirroring there

Oh, that explains the Ted-Abigail stuff.
oooh SEXIST, SEXIST, SEXIST

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

terryc wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:57:55 +0000, ted wrote:


i am sorry for you as you just don't get it you really don't but back
you go to your own small world and as for my state of mind are you sure
you aren't doing some mirroring there

Oh, that explains the Ted-Abigail stuff.
oooh SEXIST, SEXIST, SEXIST


the ted reminds me of the email addy i gave for this site as i have a
few email addys it was meant to be a prompt for me but if you have more
fun assuming i have some mental problems or i am a cross dresser or i am
not in tune with my own sexuality then you have those thoughts! i am
sure they are far more interesting to you then the real reason oh and by
the way i am sorry your parents couldn't spell as they seem to have put
a c on the end of terry i am sure you don't go through life introducing
yourself as terryc but go ahead and judge simply because i dont agree
with you indeed how dare some one call you out on something how dare one
disagree with the great terryc

Abigail

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

ted wrote:
terryc wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:57:55 +0000, ted wrote:


i am sorry for you as you just don't get it you really don't but back
you go to your own small world and as for my state of mind are you sure
you aren't doing some mirroring there

Oh, that explains the Ted-Abigail stuff.
oooh SEXIST, SEXIST, SEXIST


the ted reminds me of the email addy i gave for this site as i have a
few email addys it was meant to be a prompt for me but if you have more
fun assuming i have some mental problems or i am a cross dresser or i am
not in tune with my own sexuality then you have those thoughts! i am
sure they are far more interesting to you then the real reason oh and by
the way i am sorry your parents couldn't spell as they seem to have put
a c on the end of terry i am sure you don't go through life introducing
yourself as terryc but go ahead and judge simply because i dont agree
with you indeed how dare some one call you out on something how dare one
disagree with the great terryc

Abigail

Please take this to email.

--
Anne Chambers
South Australia

anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:36:21 +0000, ted wrote:


the ted reminds me of the email addy i gave for this site as i have a
few email addys it was meant to be a prompt for me but if you have more
fun assuming i have some mental problems or i am a cross dresser or i am
not in tune with my own sexuality then you have those thoughts! i am
sure they are far more interesting to you then the real reason oh and by
the way i am sorry your parents couldn't spell as they seem to have put
a c on the end of terry i am sure you don't go through life introducing
yourself as terryc but go ahead and judge simply because i dont agree
with you indeed how dare some one call you out on something how dare one
disagree with the great terryc

Abigail

Sad. Bye.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

ted wrote:
terryc wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 +0000, ted wrote:

wrote:

Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some
find it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens
to have dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that
see no wrong in making jokes like this still in 2009

but is would be okay to ask what is white, male and sings in the
garden with a reply of John Denver (or some idol idiot)?

Get over it folks. Trying not to be rascist by stridently not
describing non-white peoples skin is rascism. You are just showing
that you still categorise people by skin colour, rather than accept
it as a natural descriptor.

Anyway, technically his skin colour isn't black, but some where in
that brown to olive range.

To get back to the subject, I'm glad his bird is a Koel. Far better
than frigging black birds(bright yellow beak) who scratch up all your
seedlings.

Are tennis ball guns illegal or not sold? My throwing arm is no good
anymore.
why not just a male that sings in the garden why the colour overtones

Because the bird is black and a Koel and sings and I couldn't call him Nat
if that wasn't true.

David

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 GMT, ted wrote:

wrote:

Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some find
it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to have
dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no wrong
in making jokes like this still in 2009

Folks, I present for your amusement, another politically correct moron.

You are a fool, go and read up on what racism is all about, you obviously have no clue.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

atec 7 7 wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 GMT, ted wrote:

wrote:

Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some
find it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to
have dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no
wrong in making jokes like this still in 2009

Folks, I present for your amusement, another politically correct moron.

You are a fool, go and read up on what racism is all about, you
obviously have no clue.
If the singer was named as Paul Robson it might have been less pc
either way being Nat it was funny
Paul Robson was my local banker. I think you mean Paul Robeson...
Crikey, its bad when they cant even get racism right, next its getting
the wrong name. Next theyl'l screw up the colour.
Whats the world coming too.
Can you even call a black bird that these days?
Or would that be a colour enhanced, insulated, flying dinosaur, of the
garden variety?
Yikes....

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

"atec 7 7" "atec wrote in message
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 GMT, ted wrote:
wrote:
Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some find
it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to have
dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no wrong
in making jokes like this still in 2009
Folks, I present for your amusement, another politically correct moron.

You are a fool, go and read up on what racism is all about, you obviously
have no clue.

If the singer was named as Paul Robson it might have been less pc
either way being Nat it was funny

It was clever. But when I thought about it, I wondered which of the Coles
it was named after. Was it Nat King Cole, or was it named after his
daughter Natalie? I decided in the end that it must have been the velvet
voiced Nat and not the daughter.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
ted wrote:
terryc wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 +0000, ted wrote:

wrote:

Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some
find it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens
to have dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that
see no wrong in making jokes like this still in 2009

but is would be okay to ask what is white, male and sings in the
garden with a reply of John Denver (or some idol idiot)?

Get over it folks. Trying not to be rascist by stridently not
describing non-white peoples skin is rascism. You are just showing
that you still categorise people by skin colour, rather than accept
it as a natural descriptor.

Anyway, technically his skin colour isn't black, but some where in
that brown to olive range.

To get back to the subject, I'm glad his bird is a Koel. Far better
than frigging black birds(bright yellow beak) who scratch up all your
seedlings.

Are tennis ball guns illegal or not sold? My throwing arm is no good
anymore.
why not just a male that sings in the garden why the colour overtones

Because the bird is black and a Koel and sings and I couldn't call him Nat
if that wasn't true.

After reading you for so long, I'd be very surprised if the colour of the
bird was as prominent in your thought processes as this comment from you
suggests. I've never known you to be anything other than thoughtful,
articulate and aware.

I can't think of one other singer with the surname of Cole that would suit a
bird called a Koel.

There may be some such singers but none occurs to me. Being middle aged
(well, late middle age really), it is Nat (or his daughter) who immediately
came to mind when I saw your original comment.

The colour of the bird clicked in only after the original connection of
Koel/Cole - it was there of course, but not as a primary fact.

As soon as I saw the comments of Ernie Dingo and Kamahl, I too concluded
'Racism! Ernie doesn't sing so the only connection is colour. Kamahl sings
but his name sounds nothing like Koel so again the only link was colour.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

"Jonthe Fly" wrote in message
...
atec 7 7 wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 GMT, ted wrote:

wrote:
Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some
find it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to
have dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no
wrong in making jokes like this still in 2009
Folks, I present for your amusement, another politically correct moron.

You are a fool, go and read up on what racism is all about, you
obviously have no clue.
If the singer was named as Paul Robson it might have been less pc
either way being Nat it was funny
Paul Robson was my local banker. I think you mean Paul Robeson...
Crikey, its bad when they cant even get racism right, next its getting the
wrong name. Next theyl'l screw up the colour.
Whats the world coming too.
Can you even call a black bird that these days?
Or would that be a colour enhanced, insulated, flying dinosaur, of the
garden variety?
Yikes....

It was not a BLACK bird it was NONreflective.

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

SG1 wrote:
"Jonthe Fly" wrote in message
...
atec 7 7 wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 GMT, ted wrote:

wrote:
Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some
find it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to
have dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no
wrong in making jokes like this still in 2009
Folks, I present for your amusement, another politically correct moron.

You are a fool, go and read up on what racism is all about, you
obviously have no clue.
If the singer was named as Paul Robson it might have been less pc
either way being Nat it was funny
Paul Robson was my local banker. I think you mean Paul Robeson...
Crikey, its bad when they cant even get racism right, next its getting the
wrong name. Next theyl'l screw up the colour.
Whats the world coming too.
Can you even call a black bird that these days?
Or would that be a colour enhanced, insulated, flying dinosaur, of the
garden variety?
Yikes....

It was not a BLACK bird it was NONreflective.


It "could" have been full gloss reflective....with stealth capabilities...

What's black, male and sings in the garden?
 

SG1 wrote:
"Jonthe Fly" wrote in message
...
atec 7 7 wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:33:42 GMT, ted wrote:

wrote:
Kamahl?

hello rainman it's a racist joke that is ment to be funny well some
find it funny. Kamahl is an is a singer in australia that happens to
have dark skin, yes we also have racists in this country that see no
wrong in making jokes like this still in 2009
Folks, I present for your amusement, another politically correct moron.

You are a fool, go and read up on what racism is all about, you
obviously have no clue.
If the singer was named as Paul Robson it might have been less pc
either way being Nat it was funny
Paul Robson was my local banker. I think you mean Paul Robeson...
Crikey, its bad when they cant even get racism right, next its getting the
wrong name. Next theyl'l screw up the colour.
Whats the world coming too.
Can you even call a black bird that these days?
Or would that be a colour enhanced, insulated, flying dinosaur, of the
garden variety?
Yikes....

It was not a BLACK bird it was NONreflective.



It "could" have been full gloss reflective....with stealth capabilities...