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Art Colony: the bird
Thursday, February 23, 2006
› by victoria
One of our new neighbours has a bird.
I first heard it on monday night while trying to cue up this X-Files DVD that I had rented from the library. We had gotten halfway through "Brand X" when all of a sudden the DVD player hit a deep scratch, thoughtfully left on the disc by a previous patron. I kept on trying to re-set the DVD player in different ways so the rest of the episode would play, but it was a no-go. At the same time, I heard the lonely squawks of a small parrot/parakeet/cockatiel (but my guess is a small parrot) coming from somewhere nearby.
After hearing these noises over the past few days, I have come to the conclusion that
A.) the bird must be either in the apartment to the left, or one down the hall--but judging from the acoustics, the one to the left
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B.) the poor bird is really lonely.
I'm not sure if our apartment manager knows if the bird is there, so I wouldn't want to cause a fuss by asking about it. But I'd like to write the owner a note or something letting him/her know that if you play some music that the bird likes, it won't get so lonely. And if you have to leave it home alone at 11:30 PM, throwing a light blanket over the cage is a guaranteed way to make it quiet down.
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