<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Nancy,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br>-~ 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....<br>It sure did popularize the tune, and helped fit my classical music upbringing into my high school world, so a combination not all bad.<br><br>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.<br><br>So here's a translation into Kevin -- my opined captioning for your video lyrics:<br><br>Mud worms tickled<br>And you fed us<br>Slimy frogs and goldfish, let us<br>Thank the voice of Gretel, so far away<br><br>Asking us to drive less often<br>Habitat should not be coffin<br>Carbon footprint checklists<br>Skipped for today<br><br>Give us chance to breathe more freely<br>Gain due pride in sightings really<br>Contributing science<br>In positive ways<br><br>Habitat Day, Make it your thing<br>Habitat Day, Make it your think<br><br>Regards, with apologies,<br>Kevin Lucas<br>Yakima County, WA<br><a href="https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/">https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/</a><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">Qui tacet consentire</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> videtur</span></font></b></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:36 AM Nancy Morrison <<a href="mailto:weedsrus1@gmail.com">weedsrus1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tii_We-3izs" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tii_We-3izs</a><br><div><br></div><div>Nancy Morrison</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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