Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
-- The Buddha
4/1/2004 7:38 PM
The tooky tooky bird in the tree outside my window just finished giving me a 20 minute concert. They are brown, a little larger than a robin, with black head and yellow beak. They don't seem to try emulating other birds or sounds but work on this weird repetoir from tiny squeaks in rising and falling scales, raucous GACK sounds, and a whole lot more. And of course, the classic tooky tooky.