PROBLEM, BIRDWATCHER?
So I've been in bed for three days with vertigo, which seems to be getting better, and I kept hearing a cuckoo. It was too frequent and irregular to be a clock, and the bird that makes the classic cuckoo-clock call is only found in Europe and Asia. Had one escaped from a menagerie? Had a local mockingbird somehow heard one and become obsessed with it? It was driving me nuts. I probably would have been outside with binoculars if I'd been able to stand up.
This morning, feeling better, I was standing by a clothes rack on the other side of the room when I heard the barely audible sounds of a burbling brook ... and twittering birds ... and the cuckoo. Our tortoiseshell Oriental Shorthair, Lilly, has made herself a nest of old clothes and stuffed animals atop the rack, and she'd managed to turn on an old white-noise machine I had up there, but softly enough so that from any distance it seemed to be coming from outside.
Oriental Shorthairs are famous for considering themselves great wits.
This morning, feeling better, I was standing by a clothes rack on the other side of the room when I heard the barely audible sounds of a burbling brook ... and twittering birds ... and the cuckoo. Our tortoiseshell Oriental Shorthair, Lilly, has made herself a nest of old clothes and stuffed animals atop the rack, and she'd managed to turn on an old white-noise machine I had up there, but softly enough so that from any distance it seemed to be coming from outside.
Oriental Shorthairs are famous for considering themselves great wits.