This is bird node.

There's an element of luck in bird watching, and sometimes that luck is mostly bad.

I put a spell on you.

A birder may find a particular bird so elusive that after many unsuccessful attempts to see it, the bird becomes a kind of

jinx bird. Can a bird truly be equated with bad luck? Europeans centuries ago believed so,

for the very word jinx, comes directly from a bird's name.

The bird once called the jinx, J-Y-N-X, is the bird known today as the Eurasian Rye-neck.

When a ryeck, a brown and gray-toned bird about the size of a small woodpecker is threatened at its nest hole.

It twists its head sideways like a snake and hisses.

This anomalous behavior led to the Rineck being invoked in witchcraft to put a spell or a jinx on someone. Because you might.

Today, the Eurasian Rineck seems harmless enough, although its scientific name,

Jinks Torquilla, honors its neck-twisting, bewitching reputation.

I put a spell on you.

For Bird Note, I'm Michael Stein.

Because you're mad,

mine,

my!

Oh,

oh, you're my.