Brasilian Great Kiskadee

I woke up an hour ago with a great kiskadee trying to get into my bedroom. It would hit the balcony's window, fall on the floor and sing. It kept repeating this for 5 minutes. I had no idea why it just wouldn't fly the opposite way, to the trees that surround my room.

Finally, I went to the door and pulled the curtains open. The kiskadee saw me and flew away ( into the tree on the right hand side of this photo. )

The Great Kiskadee is called a Bem-te-vi in Portuguese. Phonetically, the sound that it makes sounds like Bem-te-vi!, which means something like "Well well, I saw you!"

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"...there's only one possible Prime Minister who can be relied upon not to involve Britain in another imperialist war: Tony Blair. He can be relied upon, because no one will ever trust him again... Tony Blair could introduce Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac, and Hans Blix, all swearing blind that this time he is telling the truth and the sky is, in fact, blue, and he'd be trampled in the rush to the windows. Imagine him trying to freeze our blood with talk of Iranian or North Korean WMD capabilities, or Syrian Ba'athist repression!

Vote for peace.

Vote Labour!"

- From Ken Macleod's blog