In your talk about the dickie bird, I was reminded that my granddaughter and I were quite surprised to hear a real coocoo bird at a bed & breakfast in County Clare, near Lisdoonvarna. I wasn't even aware there was even a real bird that had that whistle and don't know what it's real name is or what it looked like. Ludie ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Wolfe To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:57 AM Subject: [Sc-Ir] Dickie Bird There is a bird called the dickcissel. Could your Dickie Bird be one of these cute finch-like birds. I looked in my Scottish and Irish bird books but did not find it. These are small books that have only the most common birds. If any is interested, I will scan and email it to you. Pat Wolfe in Maryland At Christmastime, we were told that a "dickie bird" would sit outside our window .. and "watch what we were doing" .. and then fly away and go "report to" Santa !

On 22 Nov, 2005, at 22:20, Loudene Tollar wrote: > In your talk about the dickie bird, I was reminded that my > granddaughter and I were quite surprised to hear a real coocoo bird > at a bed & breakfast in County Clare, near Lisdoonvarna. I wasn't > even aware there was even a real bird that had that whistle and > don't know what it's real name is or what it looked like. Ludie > ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Wolfe > To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:57 AM > Subject: [Sc-Ir] Dickie Bird > > > There is a bird called the dickcissel. Could your Dickie Bird be > one of > these cute finch-like birds. I looked in my Scottish and Irish > bird books > but did not find it. These are small books that have only the most > common > birds. If any is interested, I will scan and email it to you. > > Pat Wolfe in Maryland > > > > At Christmastime, we were told that a "dickie bird" would sit > outside our > window .. and "watch what we were doing" .. and then fly away and > go "report > to" Santa ! Then there is that most famous of all Dickie Birds ... On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Sang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!" And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing Willow, titwillow, titwillow'?" "Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried, "Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?" With a shake of his poor little head, he replied, "Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!" Sung by KO-KO (Lord High Executioner of Titipu), in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado." T.T.F.N. William H. Magill magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org magill@mac.com whmagill@gmail.com