Think Semana Santa visitors are gone? We just got more!

New neighbors moved in our block in La Noria. We've got a few pairs of chachalacas (fun word to say too) that moved in yesterday around the corner, next door and behind us. LOUD muthas, but fun. They look like a cross between a pheasant and a peacock and sound like a motor that won't quite catch. For those of you who haven't seen or heard them, I found this on Youtube - but they're LOUDER! Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdlC96O2xOw

Tere -- I tried for years to think of what chachalacas' calls remind me of. Then I realized it's a kind of kids' noise-maker, popular when I was growing up. Raspy, kind of metallic sound. What do you think? Vintage Noise Makers

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Tere -- I tried for years to think of what chachalacas' calls remind me of. Then I realized it's a kind of kids' noise-maker, popular when I was growing up. Raspy, kind of metallic sound. What do you think? Vintage Noise Makers

Ha! That's the thing. It's such an odd sound that it conjures up different associations for different people. A creaky door, a sick duck, a noise-maker, plywood ripping, squeaky cork, a creature from The Outer Limits.

There's a marine motor repair shop across the street from us, so at first I thought it was more motor sounds coming from there! HA! They're making my mother-in-law's cat's head swivel like a gun turret.

Funny fact! My great aunt told me and my cousins to listen to chachalacas carefully and we could hear them saying something like "barrrrre tu casa" hahaha which means sweep in your house!