When Birds Sing

The picture at top - available larger here - is a bit interesting. When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm often on the back steps with a cup of warm fluid considering something - either internally or externally. Most writing doesn't happen at the keyboard, most programming doesn't happen at the keyboard; it's just the way it is. But that picture was taken as I was watching some birds whistle at each other before I attended to meetings in the afternoon.

What was most interesting was that one bird whistled, the other listened. An odd thing, that. And then when I got closer, one sounded an alarm and the other whistled calmly. The alarmist twittered at the one sounding the calm one; the calm one whistled calmly again. The response from the alarmist was a calm whistle. So together, they sat and sang for supper in chorus. What happened there? Communication.

And I thought... Gee. People can learn something from birds. And so can technology. :-)