Joy writes <Many years ago, I was crossing a bridge during a multi-day bike tour when I began to hear an alarming "clank-clank-clank" from the vicinity of my back wheel. After a panic-driven search, I discovered that a bird was flying beside the bridge at exactly my speed.
Many years ago for me too, we were driving through a heavy scrub in a coastal region with a distinct metalic ping ping ping which had us worried for a while that the car had something wrong with it, until we realised it was bell-birds. This is not a mimic - it is their normal sound. Now Australian lyre birds, they CAN imitate almost any sound! Which reminds me - I saw a lyre bird in bobbin lace at show in Sydney several years before I took up bobbin lace - does anyone in Oz know if there is a pricking for it? Or does anyone have a simple outline type drawing of a lyre bird I could use to try and work out something myself? Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
