Okay, at the risk of sounding absolutely crazy, I have to ask if anyone has noticed this.
I typically practice my cajun accordion in my dining room in a townhouse in NJ. Outside my window is a small yard with a bird feeder, garden and patio. I have noticed that whenever I start playing, birds flock to my feeder. Now you may be saying, Bob, what have you been smoking. But I did a test a week ago. I moved the feeder to a new place, put it on a higher perch and changed the type of feeder. It sat unused for a day or two until I broke into Texas Two-Step one morning and low and behold, the birds were again swarming. Now I was not planning on mentioning this to anyone until this morning when, again, I was playing a two step my tiny yard (about the size of a large cubicle) was alive with life. This time 4 chipmunks, 3 rabbits, grackles and house sparrows and a couple of nuthatches.
Call me crazy but I think there is a correlation here and I noticed they seem to like it more when I play in C rather than G!
My best audiance when I play out doors has always been birds.
They turn their heads, hop around and appear to dance around plus get closer
to me as I play. It happens with the accordion and uilleann pipes. I think they
like reed instruments.
Wow! I'm not nuts! I end up playing outside frequently
because the wife gets annoyed and the dog starts to
howl....I too have noticed that birds swoop around when
I am playing on the deck...interesting.
Funny you should mention ducks. We live on a small lake. I always play outside on the deck, the ducks always come in the yard and listen. They'll eat some of the feed that falls out of the bird feeder and hang out. I think during mating season the males promise momma dining & dancing to get her in the mood
P.S. We also have 2 rabbits out there that just hang out watching me. Great audience....never any complaints!