"Ethics 101"
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What is pishing?
Pishing — or "spishing" if you want to be that person — is the ancient and deeply undignified art of making weird mouth noises at birds until they come closer out of sheer curiosity. It is not a bird call. It is closer to a noise complaint you make with your face.
Here's how: make one long, forceful shhhhhhhh — like you're aggressively shushing someone in a movie theater who absolutely deserves it. Now, while you're doing that, snap your lips closed about twice a second. You're going for pshh-pshh-pshh-pshh. A sputtering shush. A whispered engine failure.
That's it. That's pishing. You will look ridiculous. It works anyway. Birds hear it and think "what sad, small creature is making that noise?" and come to investigate. They are, in this way, better than us.
You now know how to pish. Use this power wisely. Or don't. The chickadees aren't judging.
We, as many people who like birds, would not recommend pish-baiting (like rage baiting but for birds) a ton, especially during mating season. This goes for the old-fashioned mouth noises and the new-fangled digital options. Be nice. They're birds.
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