Elise Chen
How to call a bird
Follow these simple steps and you’ll have your own companion in no time
- Carve yourself a bird whistle out of the finest cedar wood, the shape you make depends on the bird you fancy
- low baritone pitches of long corridor-ed flutes for the hefty owls and great condors
- high falsetto tones of the petite piccolo bring finches and sparrows
- Then grow yourself a bouquet of flowers – preferably calla lilies and fox gloves to play chimes as the wind runs free
- Dandelions, though weeds, make good substitutes, carrying the wishes of children on each pollen particle
- Brew yourself a cup of warm tea with honey in order to make your breath extra sweet when it tunnels through the whistle’s chambers, any of the blends below will do:
- Mint brings the cool breeze, the migrating geese and snowy owls of the north
- Earl grey brings the sharp-witted eagles and raptors from the cliff tops
- Vanilla brings the sweet hum of the finches and bluebirds, canaries and parakeets sitting atop the fruit trees
- Hibiscus brings the warm tropical breeze, the gusts of wind which toucans and macaws ride
- Wait until dusk or dawn, when the sun drips honey down the Earth’s atmosphere
- The “Golden Hour of Revelation”, as they so call it, when the sun’s glow shines like a halo, illuminating the silhouette of your future companion
- Play a tune from your heart, and so comes forth the glazed avian soaring through the sky, perching on your shoulder as it chirps a familiar tune
- May your hopes and desires float in the current, reaching the bright plumes of your new avian friend