Martha Wild wrote: Some years ago I was hired to call a one-nighter at the Manomet Bird Observatory (www.manomet.org). I was walking the group through Bird in the Cage; when I got to the namesake part of the figure, I said, as I usually do, "Some people like to make bird noises." I was rewarded with lifelike calls of a dozen different species. Tony Parkes Billerica, Massachusetts, USA