Bird cocked his head left, then right.
“You have an unusual song,” he tweeted to the shiny black and silver singer. “Are you new here?”
“Ringringring!”
Bird was puzzled. “I think we need an interpreter!”
“Ringringring!”
Bird called a meeting. Spy? Tourist? Terrorist? Kill him? Pull out his wing and tail feathers, then interrogate him?
Bird pulled rank. “We’re not going to torture him. Let’s just watch.”
New Bird tweeted again. A human picked him up and spoke to him.
Bird watched, his head cocked. He hopped, and flew away.
“Nothing to see here, folks.”
Just Writing! 
A miscommunication worthy of your two aliens
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I did think about using them, but this story popped up on the page instead 🙂
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Dear Linda,
A chirp off the old block? Let’s all sing like the birdies do…
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Ha! I think you’ve maybe provided us all with a good laugh today 🙂
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Thank you for that, Linda. Always happy to provide laughs. 😀
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I wonder if birds get envious and resentful because mankind and phones have such an annoyingly hep rapport, although I bitterly despise the phone
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Me too, Larry. A device that rules way too many of us. Intrusive.
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IT’s an Adam and Eve thing
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🙂
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Phones have got a way to go before they can rival birdsong as a calming sound!
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Oh, the only ones that are calming are the ones who are owned by people who choose beautiful ring tones! And they’ll never beat the birds 🙂
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Enjoyed that. Some birds would now be mimicking it.
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Thank you, Anthony 🙂
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New bird is a disgusting slave to those gravitationally challenged bipeds.
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Ha! Good one, Bjorn 🙂
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Good take. My brother used to have parakeets that would sing and jump around when the phone rang.
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Aw, that’s cute 🙂
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I love the concept here, very original!
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Thanks so much 🙂
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I love bird song, and I enjoyed the images you painted.
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Thanks, Mike. I opened my front door to go out to get the mail today, and I was flooded with birdsong. Been smiling all day 🙂
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P.O.V. is everything!
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Absolutely! Thanks, Jade.
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Haha this fun story sort of reminds me, back in the day my pet galah (a saved bird) use to mimic the house phone. He got really good at too. Kind of annoying running to the phone and no one is there lol. Sometimes he would say hello as the phone was picked up. Smart animals.
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I think some birds have a great sense of humor!
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That was a fun take, Linda!
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Ditto to all of the above 🙂
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i know how irritating a phone ringing can be begging for attention to be picked up. 🙂
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I wonder if the ring tone was set at a bird song – The old BT phones used to trill trill, but as you know many of the modern devices allow you to pick your own.
I love how you captured the curiosity of the bird, leading to frustration and eventually disdain.
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Disdain. Yes that’s it exactly 🙂
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Funny, good take on the prompt.
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This made me smile – a great take on the prompt.
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Oh if only the interpreter had shown up, we could have finally found out what our phones have been talking about all these years!
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🙂
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An enjoyable tale as always. I love the idea of birds critically appraising our choice of ring tones! It really happens, too. I knew a blackbird once who was excellent at copying my landline, which had a ring tone like a sort of burbling ring-ring.
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Oh, that’s funny 🙂
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Wow, I had not previously considered sparrows, finches and the ilk to be torturers!
Fun story, Linda
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It’s hard to think of such a beautiful little bird as a torturer but hey, nature red in tooth and claw. They are all little attack machines.
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Living in north-central Minnesota, we had both bluebirds and swallows in our back yard. One morning, having breakfast, we watched a swallow fly into the bluebird house. After several minutes, the swallow dragged out the bloodied bluebird and dropped it on the ground. I think it was already dead. Kind of changed my perspective on sweet little birds .
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It’s a “human” thing. Step away, birds!
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🙂
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Nice story, short and sweet; what do you think inspired you to write such a story?
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I can’t really find a good answer 🙂 Sometimes, these flash fiction pieces just kind of follow their own path. Other times, I’ll have an idea and and ending before I start to write. You have to watch the word count, and sometimes that changes the direction of the story. Honestly, when I started, I wasn’t sure where it was going.
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A really perceptive insight into what a bird might think, nicely done
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Thanks 🙂
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A cute story, Linda. That phone has nothing on the song of a mockingbird. 🙂
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Hahahaha love this!
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More lighthearted silliness 🙂
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Ha! Ha! Nice one, he should tweet about this.
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