Subject: pishing
Date: Feb 10 11:13:03 1995
From: Q DISK - H6LG at PSUORVM.BITNET


Regarding pishing in foreign languages, I once had the chance to bird in Japan
and encountered a college age birder who spoke some English so we birded togeth
er awhile. He had never heard of pishing. Once in an apparently desolate fiel
d, I let out an American pish and two Long-tailed Rose Finches appeared from "n
owhere," flew in and landed next to us on a fence. The Japanese birder was alm
ost flabberghasted. bob obrien