The Long and Short of It

We go to check out the beach pretty often. It is fall migration if you are a bird, so just a reminder, a lot of humans with binocculars will be stalking you. Management is a bird watcher.

"Ooh, ahhh, look at the piliated woodpecker in the dead tree!"
"Look, Jane."
"Over there, Dick."
"See anything?"
"Only a parasitic jaeger and a black-bellied plover,"
"Oh, that is too bad. I saw a pterodactyl and a carrier pigeon. They flew away. Fly, pterodactyl, fly."
"Bummer, Jane. I am just a dumb white male biped."
"That's right, Dick. You said it."

I am working on dialog for my book.