Love this so much! Such a reminder to listen to the singing of the birds. It reminds me of a poetry class we did where we were invited to translate bird song, having first read a poem in another language that we didn't know and seeing what we could translate from it just from the sound - and then looking at a translation, and there were often similarities.
Ok. I basically woke up like a half hour ago and you already made the day AMAZING with this story. Love your sleuthing prowess and imagining the look on your face (and feeling in your heart) when you saw that translation.
I love your bird walks, and this story - so smart of you to look closely at the Japanese text and then to translate. It's all AI I suppose, but poetry is where you find it.
My husband is a professor at Oregon State and he studies bird song. I told him about your amazing experience and he asked Google Translate to play the Japanese phrases that correspond to what the birds said. He said the Japanese sounds like phrases of House Finch songs. Great story!
Duh, I'be been getting your emails without it occurring to me that I read two of your books, The Drunken Botanist and Girl Waits with a Gun. Well, gosh darn it, now I have to get your tree book.
I loved reading your post about the new tree species - and it's related to beans & peas!! And it's thousands of years old! I have to go sit down....wait, I AM sitting down!
I’m going to be mulling over your profound birding experience forever.
I can't stop thinking about it.
Birds are magic. Thank you so much for this story. ❤️
Agreed!
Incredible. I want to feed all the animal songs into a transcription app!
exactly!
Love this so much! Such a reminder to listen to the singing of the birds. It reminds me of a poetry class we did where we were invited to translate bird song, having first read a poem in another language that we didn't know and seeing what we could translate from it just from the sound - and then looking at a translation, and there were often similarities.
Oh wow that's interesting.
That just blows me away! The context at the end is incredible! Never heard anything like this before. Thanks for sharing.
It's crazy, isn't it?
Ok. I basically woke up like a half hour ago and you already made the day AMAZING with this story. Love your sleuthing prowess and imagining the look on your face (and feeling in your heart) when you saw that translation.
Awww thanks!
Praises to their Maker! Love the bird story. ❤️
I love your bird walks, and this story - so smart of you to look closely at the Japanese text and then to translate. It's all AI I suppose, but poetry is where you find it.
Exactly!
That is INCREDIBLE!!! about what the birds were saying in any language! Amazing!
My husband is a professor at Oregon State and he studies bird song. I told him about your amazing experience and he asked Google Translate to play the Japanese phrases that correspond to what the birds said. He said the Japanese sounds like phrases of House Finch songs. Great story!
Wow! That's interesting!
Wow!
Nice 👌
Duh, I'be been getting your emails without it occurring to me that I read two of your books, The Drunken Botanist and Girl Waits with a Gun. Well, gosh darn it, now I have to get your tree book.
I loved reading your post about the new tree species - and it's related to beans & peas!! And it's thousands of years old! I have to go sit down....wait, I AM sitting down!
Exciting tree news! I'll be in Tanzania next month; I'm going to check my itinerary to see if we'll be in that area.
I loved the "Birds are speaking Japanese" story!