A Play, Per Se

The Theatre:

The Stage:

The Characters (in order of appearance):

-Green Bird-

(our picture)

-Townsend Warbler-

(our picture)

-Giant Moth-

(our picture)

-Summer Tanager-

-White-winged Tanager-

-Bay-headed Tanager-

-Scarlet-thighed Dacnis-

-Green Honeycreeper-

-Red-headed Barbet-

 

ACT I:

SCENE 1--Sama and Matt were sitting in the theatre crunching tree data, when green bird slams into their sliding door (stage right).

Thud!

MATT: I think that was a bird that just hit the window!

SAMA: Look you can see feathers!

MATT: Let’s go look at it!

GREEN BIRD: (dazed) Cheep! . . . . . . .Cheep!

30 minutes later

GREEN BIRD: Cheep!

MATT: I think it’s still there, you should go look at it Sama.

SAMA: Yeah, it’s still there, but now it’s hopping away when I get close.

15 minutes later

MATT: I think it’s gone, I don’t see it anymore…

END SCENE 1.

SCENE 2—The next day, Sama and Matt were sitting in the theatre crunching tree data, when Townsend Warbler slams into their window (stage left).

MATT: I think that was another bird!

SAMA: That’s the second one in 36 hours!

MATT: We have to be fair and go look at this one too.

SAMA: Oooooh this one’s pretty!

Townsend Warbler: (dazed) Cheep!

20 minutes later:

Townsend Warbler: (flying away) Cheep!

END SCENE 2.

- END ACT I -

 

ACT II

SCENE 1:

Matt and Sama are leaving to go hiking.

MATT: (putting on shoes) Oh man! Look at that Moth!  It’s Ginormous!

SAMA: What moth? Oh my god! It’s HUGE!

END SCENE 1

- END ACT II -

ACT III

Enter the rest of the cast over the next week, stage right, stage left, center, etc.

 

- END ACT III -

END.

Thanks to Google for all of the pictures of the birds we’ve seen in the last couple of weeks.