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‘Ping’
This morning I woke up to a familiar sound.
‘Ping’
The sound of email arriving.
‘Ping’
At first I didn’t think much of it – it’s a sound I’m familiar with. My computer and iPhone makes it all day.
But then I realised that I wasn’t at my computer and my iPhone was at the other end of the house.
‘Ping’
More email?
As the fog of sleep left me I realised that the sound was coming from outside my bedroom window.
‘Ping’
Did one of my kids take my laptop outside? Did I sleep walk and take it out myself?
‘Ping’
I went outside to investigate and immediately saw the source of the ‘pinging’.
Directly outside my window, sitting on the fence, was a bird…. perfectly mimicking the sound of email arriving.
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10:10 am on December 2nd, 2009
then another bird should reply ‘pong’ :)
10:10 am on December 2nd, 2009
Funny story, Darren! I own a parrot here at home – - she’s a Lorikeet and her name is ‘Jingles’ – - she perfectly mimicks the sound my Blackberry makes when I have an unheard voice mail. :)
What kind of bird was it outside on your fence?
10:10 am on December 2nd, 2009
Have we come full circle now? LOL! Funny!
10:11 am on December 2nd, 2009
not sure on what type of bird it was – it didn’t hang around long and I’m not really a bird guy :-)
10:14 am on December 2nd, 2009
Well if you Get that many Emails the Birds in your Neighbourhood will Eventually start to Mimic the Sounds they Hear the Most Often. I don’t think that is Going to Happen around me just yet but interesting to Know How Blogging can Affect Nature
10:17 am on December 2nd, 2009
There is a Richard Attenborough doco where he shows us a bird which mimics – and it is mimicing the sound of a chainsaw, the sound of a car alarm, and other bizarre but very, very identifiable things.
Amazing critters :)
10:19 am on December 2nd, 2009
Thanks for this! Reminds me of our budgie when I was a kid. He imitated so many household sounds. And there are some birds that imitate a camera sound – saw it on YouTube a while ago.
10:21 am on December 2nd, 2009
Haha “Ping” is my middle name, but I never connected that to the sound of a bird :)
10:22 am on December 2nd, 2009
Maybe it’s part of evolution. Wonder what Darwin would make of this specimen
12:51 pm on December 2nd, 2009
Ok, so I’m a bird nerd. It was probably just a Butcher Bird. They are common in suburbia and excellent at mimicry. Lea probably saw a doco on a lyrebird, but I doubt one of those was on your fence! Wonder what other tricks your clever feathered friend can master…?
2:01 pm on December 2nd, 2009
That was cute! And love the other replies as well.
3:21 pm on December 2nd, 2009
Ha. This post made me laugh. I wonder what kind of bird it was. I don’t think I’ve ever heard one that makes an e-mail-sounding chirp. ;)
4:38 pm on December 2nd, 2009
That’s classic!!! I am such a comment junkie that is just what I need to break “the ping, peep, reply, browse” Oh the distraction of comments could be resolved in a morning!!!
9:15 pm on December 2nd, 2009
Maybe there should be an alarm clock with this sound as an option, instead of that annoying beeping. :)
1:18 am on December 3rd, 2009
I have to pass that story on. At least it’s not a woodpecker acting as if a steel pole is a tree. ting.ting.ting.ting.ting.ting.ting.
5:08 am on December 3rd, 2009
Funny,
I have a random alarm clock – which means it shifts the type of sound each day.
Just thought I would mention! (:
12:42 am on December 4th, 2009
A bird pinging out your window. It must mean the blogging life is meant to be!:)
9:44 am on December 4th, 2009
That’s too funny! I had a bird living outside of my bedroom window for a while who could perfectly mimic a car alarm.
11:48 am on December 4th, 2009
Dare I ask – did you twitter that?
1:58 pm on December 4th, 2009
That is too cool. We don’t have cool birds like that in Texas. If I did I would train it mimic all kinds of cool noises like my doorbell. My doorbell has a cool ring.
12:39 am on December 6th, 2009
Ha ha, not bad.
Can’t you manage time to write more often? If I could write fluent English, I would have definitely written pretty often on my personal blog. (personal.aisajib.com)
By the way, I don’t hear any sound of ‘ping’ on computer in gmail when email arrives. Is it a lab feature enabled?
6:50 am on December 6th, 2009
haha, funny story Darren. I thought you were going to say it was a dream, as I’ve had far too many dreams about blogging and checking email.
5:28 pm on December 8th, 2009
You know, it would’ve been cool had you twitpic’d a photo of it :-P
Every now and again when I’m tired, I hear the pinging my phone makes when I get a new email or text message. Then, when I check the phone, nothing. Kinda scary that that sound has stuck with me and I now hear it even when it’s not really pinging or ringing (I’m sure this happens to you every now and again no?).
9:54 am on June 14th, 2010
It happens to me too Ricardo. And very funny… :D