Bird paparazzi

There is a certain species of photographer, Jerold is one, who enjoys scaring animals in order to snap them in action. A kind of paparazzi?

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Jerold: Hold it there, birds, don’t take off until I get right onto the jetty.

Footsteps.

Jerold: That’s it. Now! Fly, fly.

6 exposures per second for 7 seconds.

Jerold: Must have a winner among that lot.

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Born to fish

Boris, who speaks English well, describes his passion to Rudolph, who is a recent immigrant and who still struggles with English.

Rudolph: Why you go out even when raining?
Boris: I have this passion. I was born to fish.
Rudolph: I have passion. I born to bird.
Boris: Born to bird? You mean Born to fly, I think. Bird’s not a noun.
Rudolph: Fish, noun. Fish, also verb. So I think … same, same.
Boris: Not birds. Not same, same. Different. Quite different.
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Snake and baby birds

Ohta and Kobayashi are members of the Kingfisher Birdwatchers Club (Kawasemi). They take photographs of owls, kingfishers, hawks, white-eyes, woodpeckers, butcherbirds, … in Koganei Park. They are exhibiting their works in the park museum.

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Ohta: You know Yamada changed his camera again?

Kobayashi: No! That’s the third? Fourth time this year?

Ohta: So fussy. Reason was he missed the snake.

Kobayashi: I took the snake with a digicam.

Ohta: It’s not the tools. They say Picasso could still create a masterpiece with a child’s paintbox. What was the story about the snake?

Kobayashi: It’s in this picture here. There were baby birds in a hollow tree, the mother came back to feed them and a snake popped out. She flew away.

Ohta: And the snake ate her babies?

Kobayashi: No, no. The snake went away and when she came back and the babies were still alive. The snake had gone.

Ohta: A snake with maternal feelings.

Kobayashi: Or the snake just wasn't hungry. Reminds me of an Indian story...
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Bird talk on gulf island

“Fellow in the big boat is pushing off back to town cause he forgot his smokes and would you believe he can’t spend two days on the island here without a puff.”

“Funny things humans. They need all those things for simple things like moving or fishing. Would you believe the joker in that little boat forgot his fishing rod so I heard him say he’s going home to buy a can of fish at the super.”

“We’re pretty lucky, us birds. We want to move, we just fly. We want to fish, we just dive in and pluck something out with our beaks. We want to go to another country, no nonsense with getting a passport and passing through immigration and the like, we just go.”

Seen one, seen ‘em all?
“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.” E. O. Wilson.