Birdwatching

Isaac looks out the window and spots the bird I've just pointed out. Then he says, "That's not a junco; that's a kookaburra."

He laughs. First Craig taught Isaac the song about the Australian bird, and then he and Isaac looked up pictures and bird calls on the Internet, and now Isaac thinks it is funny to pretend our Northern California birds are kookaburras.

Isaac does know a few local birds by sight and by call -- jays and mourning doves, owls and quail. He likes to claim that every small bird is a chickadee, but that's because he likes to make their call. He thinks "oak titmouse" is a hilarious name for a bird, and he's got a point.