Concrete and Clay

A Russian scientist last week finally discovered a method through which to interpret the apparently mindless tweeting of birds in the Upper Volta. It had occured to the scientist whilst walking home from his laboratory one evening, smelling in the sounds and tweets of the birds in the trees around him, that the quawkings might be the birds communicating with one another. As an experiment he had whistled a tone in mimicry of a blackbird in the tree of a churchyard and found that the bird replied in the exact melody of his whistle. Somehow the brief understanding between bird and human disconcerted the scientist, who became fearful that the birds were crying out some message or warning that he was unable to understand. This set him on a heady path of discovery, and he constructed a delicate machine from fibre optic antennas and biomechanical hearing devices that would be able to interpret the the Language of Birds into American english. After months of toil, the results were published in last week's Journal of Russian Science. The scientist discovered the following communication to have occurred, "Tweet tweet tweet. Tweeet. Tweeet tweet squark tweet."