The Island Birds Tour E.T.: What a good big breakfast! Where is efurykitty? Phelicity: Mewsette went back upstairs to get her hat. And Ginger furgot her camera. E.T.: Dey better hurry, our Birds Tour starts real soon. I'll giff mew yer ticket and brochure now while we're waiting. Phelicity: Thank mew. Mewsette: Here we are! Lookit, I found this book about all the Island birds! There's ofur 300 kinds of birds here! (Hmmm. And I gots company, too.) The kitties soon leave the official tour and run off by themselves. Ginger: Here, let's go ofur this way. I hear rustling efurywheres! E.T.: Ahhh... dat's what I wanted to see. A great big blue heron! Look Phelicity, he really is blue. Phelicity: Oooh, he's so big! I wonder could I get closer. I'll tippie-toe. Quick, where's my camera? Mewsette: Here it is. Try to keep your paw outta the lens this time. Oh, look in that tree! E.T.: Dat's a redheaded woodpecker up dere. Wow, I nefur saw dat kind of woodpecker. He looks like Woody, He-he-he-Hee-he, he-he... Ginger: E.T., shhhh! He really is pecking at da wood. Is he looking fur bugs to eat? Ooh, I want to take a picture of him! Mewsette: Looks kinda tasty hisself, doesn't he. Oh, I gotta quit drooling on my book. Phelicity: Meowie-wow! Sisfur, look up there! Dat's the biggest bird I efur saw inna tree! Is that a whatcha-callit mew wanted to see? Mewsette: Oh! It is! That's a giant Pileated Woodpecker. Oh my, shhh! I always wanted to see of those! They get ofur two feet tall! E.T.: Dat's a big guy all right! Dere, I got a picture of him. Look thru my binoculars! Ginger: Is dat a real stork ofur there? Wow, look how big it is! Phelicity: Mewhehe! Look how long his legs is, too. I thought they was all white. Where's my camera? Mewsette: In your pocket? Yup, it must be a stork. I didn't know some had dark heads, eiffur. E.T.: Meowza, some of these birds are bigger dan us. Da little ones must be hiding. Ginger: Dere here, I found some purrdy liddle feathers. Look up! Mew hear singing in da trees? Phelicity: Oh, how purrty! That one looks like a liddle canary, it's the one singing. Mmmmm. Mewsette: That's a yellow warbler, it says in the book. I gotta quit drooling on my book. Do I hear anoffur songbird? Ginger: It's coming from ofur there! The liddle brown song sparrow. (I betcha we coud catch him!) Phelicity: (I betcha we could, too. Let's go!) E.T.: Dey sing a nice duet! Shhh! There's a bird ofur dere in the grass lookin' at us. Dat's a nutcracker, isn't it? Look thru my binoculars. Mewsette: I think so, I nefur saw one of them befur, eiffur. What are mew gurrls chasing? Ginger: Who, us? Nobody. Nuthin. We's picking up bird feathers. (pant pant) See? Phelicity: (pant pant, Missed him, shoot! I gots room in my pocket, too.) See that real black bird? That's a grackle. I saw one inna book. E.T, has mew got my camera? E.T.: Here it is. Look, hold your paw under it instead of on the side, like I showed mew. Ginger: (He's on the ground, too.) Phelicity: Just a minit, I wants to ...umm, find a black feather furst. Mewsette: Where did they go? E.T. Would mew believe feather-hunting? Mewsette: Mewhehe! Not fur one minit. Time flies like birds, but the kitties were happy with an extra-long Birds Tour!