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THE WALSH COUNTY PRESS ° WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
By Kevin Skavhaug
A full musical...
It's 5:30 in the morning
and someone told the birds
it's time to go to work. I
guess they don't realize it's
Sunday, but I suppose any
signal that spring is here can
be forgiven for waking me
up. Their song is one of the
good sounds of summer
time music•
This past Sunday morn-
ing's pre-dawn conce was
broken up moments later by
a Woodpecker who thought
he'd rap off a percussion
solo on our downspout.
That is something that had
to be dealt with so I strolled
out in my robe to chase him
off. I saw him flying south,
round about Jay Thomp-
son's place sol killed two
birds with one stone on that
one! Ah, but with four little
ones at home he was prob-
ably up already anyway.
But there is plenty of
good music out there this
time of year. The honks of
Canada Geese is one of my
favorite springtime sounds.
It's an automatic neck
twister every time I hear
them. It's sort of a condi-
tioned response I guess but
whenever a ker-honk is
heard, I have to see ifI can
get a look at them. Despite
the disdain farmers have
for them, I'm glad those gi-
ant birds were re-introduced
to this neck of the woods
some 25 years or so ago.
Makes for some darn good
easy listening.
One of my all-time fa-
vorite sumlnertime musicals
occur late in the day near
any country slough. Black-
birds; redwinged or yellow
headed, chirp out a nice
little staccato melody that
on a calm summer night,
echoes across the pond and
can be heard a quarter mile
away. Red Winged Black-
birds are just one of the
great benefits to living min-
utes from the great out-
doors.
There are non-flying mu-
sicians out there too. Wood
frogs waking upand look-
ing for a little romance in
the bog creates quite a rack-
et this time of year. It re-
minds me of a high school
band coming in for a per-
formance; when they all
are warming up their in-
struments at the same time.
I don't know how band
teachers can handle that
every day. But the frogs
are well taught; [ swear
their croaking is done in
rounds.
This weekend our high
school kids will venture off
to Minot to put a crescendo
on the 2016-.17 music sea-
son. Early May is a great
time to finish the musical
year off. Or if you look at it
like the birds do, it'sprob-
ably the best time to show-
case their talents.
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