- INTRODUCTION
- VIDEO BY ALICE
- SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
- VIDEO CREDITS
- MORE INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
Here is a video in which I ask the Songbirds at Orcutt Ranch what languages they speak. This is the second in a video series filmed yesterday at Orcutt Ranch Horticultural Center, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California.
There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
In this video I’m just guessing at which Songbird is saying what. I name them Songbird 1, Songbird 2, etc. so that you will know different Songbirds are speaking. I do the same for the Coyotes.
“Orcutt Ranch 2: What Languages Do Songbirds Speak?”
By Alice B. Clagett
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
[I had just asked the Songbirds what languages they speak.]
Songbird to other Songbirds: She says what languages are we speaking?
Coyote to Songbird: Try ‘Ni hao ma?’ and then see how it goes.
Alice to Songbirds: I heard all these Birds talking.
Songbird to other Songbirds: Sweet Jesus, She hears us!
Alice to Songbird: Excited?
Songbird to Alice: Yeah!
Songbird to other Songbirds: Sweet Jesus, She wants to talk to us.
Alice to Songbirds: I hope everything’s ok with the Birds here.
Songbird to Alice: Yes, It really would be!
Coyote (repeating Songbird): Yes, it is ok.
Alice to Songbird: Good.
Songbird to other Songbirds: She says, Good!
Alice to Readers: Bird said … Songbird said ‘Yes, It really would be.’ Did you hear that?
Coyote 1 (pacing what he says to my footsteps … making fun of me): The … quality … of … my … life … would … be … not … so … good … right … now.
Coyote 2 to Songbird (simultaneously with Coyote 1, pacing what he says to my footsteps): Don’t … say … anything … to … her … about … what … we … are … saying.
Coyote 3 to Alice (simultaneously with Coyotes 1 and 2, speaking meanly): Jesus Christ, quite seriously, woman, stop saying that thing right now.
Hummingbird (poking fun at Coyote 3 by mimicking his sardonic tone of speech): She really will say ‘Ni hao ma?’ dammit.
One Coyote to the other Coyotes: They don’t hear everything that we say, do they?
Alice to Songbird: I heard that ‘Nin hao wa?’ [I am saying it incorrectly; it should be ‘Ni hao ma?’.]
Songbird to Coyote (mimicking his mean way of talking): She can’t hear everything.
Coyote to Songbird (getting ired up): W know all of that already, g-dd-mmit.
Alice to Readers (simultaneously with the end of Coyote’s speech): On the psychic plane I just asked the Songbird over there … I said: Do you speak Chinese?
The Songbird said: Yes.
And I said: Would you speak it now? [not really hoping for anything] …
And the Songbird said: Basically, We just say ‘Ni hao ma?’
Songbird to Alice (mockingly): Yeah!
Alice to Songbird: Did you say ‘Nin hao wa?’
Songbird to Alice (mockingly): God, Oh no, She said that really wrong.
Alice to Songbird: ‘Nin hao wa?’ Did I say that wrong?
Songbird to Alice (mockingly): Yeah, You did.
Alice to Songbird: Do you speak Spanish?
Songbird to Coyote (mockingly): She said that wrong and you said it right.
Coyote 1 to Songbird (regaining his good humor) All right, She said that Highfalutin thing in the wrong manner and I said it right.
Coyote 2 to Coyote 1: My God. I think she wants us to fart around with that idea.
Coyote 3 to Songbird 1: Say, ‘We do not speak very much of that language’.
Songbird 2 to Songbird 1: Try ‘¿Cómo estás?’ and see if she can say that.
Alice to Songbird 1: Did I say that right? ‘¿Cómo estás?’?
Songbird 1 to Songbird 2: Yeah, She said that right.
Alice to Readers (simultaneously): Songbirds speak Chinese and Spanish … and English.
Alice to Songbird 1: Do you speak other language? …
Coyote (maybe coaching the Songbird): I also speak Arabian.
Alice to Songbird (instead of Coyote, by mistake): Arabian!
Songbird 1 to Alice: No, I don’t.
Alice to Songbird 1: Anything else?
Songbird 1 to Alice: No I just speak Chinese, English and Spanish language.
Alice to Readers (simultaneously with the end of Songbird 1’s sentence): That’s it for this reservation. They call Orcutt Ranch their ‘reservation’. And in a way it is.
What do you think? … ‘Nin hao wa?’ [I am still saying it incorrectly; it should be ‘Ni hao ma?’.]
Songbird 1 to Alice: Tssssssk, d-mn you. That’s not right.
Alice to Songbird 1: ‘¿Cómo estás?’ … ‘¿Cómo estás?’ … I got it!
Songbird 2 to Alice: That’s right!
Alice to Readers: Can you hear them talking?
Alice to Songbird 2: ‘¿Cómo estás?’
Songbird 2 to Alice: Right. Right.
Alice to Songbird 2: ‘Nin hao wa?’
Songbird 2 to Alice: That … is … not … right.
Alice to Readers (speaking simultaneously with Songbird 2): ‘Right? … Nay’. That’s a tentative ‘Right’ from the Birds.
Alice to Songbirds: Is it the Birds talking?
Songbird 2 to Alice: Yeah.
Alice to Songbird 2: Songbirds?
Songbird 2 to Alice: Yeah, right.
Alice to Songbird 2: Is it the Squirrels talking?
Squirrel to Alice: D-mn you, That’s not us.
Alice to Readers (simultaneously with the end of the Squirrel’s speech): Squirrels are not talking.
. . . . .
Alice to Readers: I can’t get them [the Songbirds] to say any other languages. And I don’t know how to identify the languages.
Alice to Songbird: Do you know any other languages over here?
[Airplane goes overhead.]
Alice to Readers: They’re not talking.
I wonder what would happen if I went to a place where people spoke all different kinds of languages. What would the Birds be talking then? Would they know 20 languages, I wonder?
Songbird to Alice: Yeah, We would.
Alice to Songbird: You would? Twenty? That’s a lot of languages! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 …
Songbird to Alice: Stop! That’s enough!
Alice to Songbird (continuing anyway):
6, 7, 9, 9, 10 … 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 ….
[Percussive slamming sound]
Alice to Songbird: I can’t count that high! That’s a lot of languages. You’re amazing beings, you know that? … You’re incredible.
Songbird 1 to Alice (embarrassed): Stop it!
Alice to Songbird 1: ‘Hao wa?’
Songbird 2 to Alice: Stop it, please!
Songbird 1 to Alice: Stop it!
Alice to Songbird 1 (misunderstanding what was said): ‘Hao wa?’ … Thank you … Thank you … ‘Como …’
Songbird 2 to Alice: Right, right, right, right.
Alice to Songbird 2: How did that go? ‘Right, right, right, right, right’? … ¿Cómo estás? … Got it. Ok … ¿Cómo …?
[Five hard banging sounds from the neighborhood of the community garden plots on the east side of Orcutt Ranch]
Alice to Songbird 2: ¿Cómo …? … ¿Cómo …?
Songbird 2 to Alice (speaking urgently): That man says, “Stop Stop Stop it’. I think he might be getting angry.
Alice to Songbird 2: Ok, ‘Don’t say, ‘Right right right right.’ … I think it’s ¿Cómo estás?
Songbird 2 to Alice: Right, right, right, right, right.
Alice to Songbird 2: Oh, Thank you! … Right, right, right, right?
Songbird 2 to Alice (losing interest): Right, right, right.
. . . . .
Alice to Readers: They [the Songbirds] are not speaking very loudly here. They’re very quiet here today. Early in the morning they’re not quiet.
Alice to Monarch Butterfly: Who is that?
Alice to herself: Where did that Butterfly go? …
Monarch Butterfly to Alice: I’m over here.
Alice to herself [spotting it flying off]: There it went.
Alice to Monarch Butterfly: Are you coming back this way? … No? …
Monarch Butterfly to Alice: No! I am not going back over there.
Alice to Monarch Butterfly (simultaneously with what the Butterfly is saying): Where did you go? … Oh, very beautiful!
Monarch Butterfly to Alice: I know that you are wondering why I am going over there …
Alice to Readers: It’s way over there.
. . . . .
Alice to another Songbird: Do you speak Chinese?
Songbird 1 to Songbird 2: She wants to know if we speak different types and different idioms of languages.
Songbird 2 to Songbird 1: Yeah, right.
Songbird 1 to Songbird 2: Idioms.
Songbird 2 to Songbird 1: Yeah, right.
Songbird 3 to Songbird 1: Tell her that you can speak it but she will not know it very well.
Alice to Songbird 3 (simultaneously with the second part of his sentence) You speak it and i don’t speak it?
Songbird 3 to Alice: Yep. You say ‘Nin hao wa?’ We say …
Alice to Songbird 3 (tentatively): ‘Nin hao wa?’
Songbird 3 to Alice: … ‘Ni hao ma?’
Alice to Songbird 1: Could you say that again, please?
Songbird 1 to Songbird 3: Wow.
Songbird 3 to Alice: I … said it … five or six … times … already.
Alice to Songbird 3: You said it six times already?
Songbird 3 to Alice: Right right.
Alice to Songbird 3: Oh, no!
Songbird 3 to Alice: Right. Right right.
Songbird 3 to Songbird 1: Said that five or six times.
Alice to Songbird 3: ‘Nin hao wa?’ Like that? ‘Nin hao wa?’ Like that? …
Songbird 3 to Alice: Tsk tsk tsk tsk.
Alice to Songbird 3: Not like that?
Another Songbird to Songbird 1 (giving up): Tell here ‘right right right’. Then she might stop it.
Coyote to Songbird: Tell her this is not that normal language. You’ve got to speak softly and in that cliipped language.
Alice to Coyote: Ok. Speaking pleasantly and with clipped accent: ‘Nin . hao . wa?’ … Not like that either? … [Giving up.] … Do you know how to speak Spanish?
Coyote, coaching Songbird: No, I don’t know how to speak Spanish all that well.
Songbird to Coyote (slightly irritated): Yes! I do! … [flying away] … Right! … Yeah, I do. Yes, I do.
Alice to Readers: Oh, They do. This one [this Bird] just flew away. I’ll try again in a minute.
So that Songbird just said I’m not speaking Chinese words right. It said, “Speak softly and like chirping.” And then I tried it and it flew away, it was so disgusted with my pronunciation.
Alice to Songbird: Very disgusted!
Songbird to Alice: Yep!
Alice to Songbird: Right!
. . . . .
Alice to Songbird: Did you want to talk?
Songbird to Alice: Nope.
Alice to Songbird: What kind of languages do you speak?
Songbird to Alice: Just Puerto Rican.
Alice to Songbird: You only speak Puerto Rican?! I’ll be hornswoggled! … Like what?
Woodpecker to Alice: That guy does not want to chatter.
Alice to Readers: Ok. Ok, just don’t want to talk to me. That was telepathic. Something’s up. Got to go. [There is a] Man there who is Puerto Rican, and he taught them to speak Puerto Rican. That was what they were thinking over, but they weren’t saying it very much. They were just thinking it.
[I am walking.]
Alice to Readers: I don’t know! In the thundery air it seemed like I was speaking to Hawk. And it said, almost telepathically it said: This is Hawk. I will speak my mind, and then I will let you go.
Sounds more like Owl to me.
Anyway, this mysterious being said: Speak your words and then let them go.
I could translate that into human English: “Don’t keep badgering me.” I think I got that right.
It’s never too late to learn something from the Birds.
God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.
In love, light and joy,
This is Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Filmed on 5 February 2026 and published on 6 February 2026
VIDEO CREDITS
“Orcutt Ranch 2: What Languages Do Songbirds Speak?”
By Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 5 February 2026 and produced on 6 February 2026
Location: Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International –
By Alice B. Clagett
My website is “Awakening with Planet Earth” … https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
MORE INFORMATION
‘Nin hao wa?’ is not correct. ‘Ni hao ma?’ is correct, but quite formal, like the English greeting, “How do you do?’
Here’s how to say ‘Hello’ in Chinese … Video: “The Nihaoma Myth – Do Chinese People Actually Say it?” by Offbeat Mandarin, 1 March 2025 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PowcAambsAA ..
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Attribution: By Alice B. Clagett.
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birds, Songbirds, interspecies communication, Chinese language, English language, Spanish language, Puerto Rican language, coyotes, Monarch butterflies, lepidoptera, arthropods,
