This morning the long lawn, just outside the living room window, looked (and sounded) like a scene from a certain Hitchcock movie, which scared me so bad when I was a little kid that I hid under Grandma Lachmayer's dining room table. Now her table graces my dining room and I am not worried a bit about this mixed flock of red winged blackbirds and a few other odds and ends, such as blue jays, getting in through the doors. Heck, I am not even worried about them pooping on ...er, repainting...my car (the girls took it to school today). However, it was quite attention-getting to have so many noisy birds swirling around the window.
They hung around for a while, picking something out of the goldenrod and sumac bushes, then flew across the old horse pasture to a dead elm tree where they loomed over the neighbor's cornfield, planning today's raid. Yesterday thousands of them rolled over in undulating flocks that took long minutes to fly over. Oddly they were flying west.
I wonder if they know something we don't.
***And I have lovely (well, sort of lovely, I took them through a none too clean window) photos, to add to this post, but Blogger is bogging down in the photo upload department again, so I guess those will have to wait.
******Update, they finally loaded, but you have to click to see all the birds.
Me too.
ReplyDeleteThat movie scared me to pieces when I was little. The one scene, very quick, of the old man in the bed after the birds.
Yowza.
Okay... was Tippi Hedren or Suzanne Pleshette hanging around nearby?
ReplyDeleteLove that midair blackbird photo! I had trouble with blogger uploading pics too. We recently watched the birds again because we wanted the kids to see it. It wasn't nearly as frightening as it was when I was a kid!
ReplyDeleteI, too, remember that movie, and I'm often reminded of it when the birds flock in the fall. It's difficult to get photos of the masses of birds swirling around, but yours show it quite well.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the pics. I love when the birds start bunching up in big flocks like that.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever get to see the Alfred Hitchcock show at Universal Studios in Orlando? I don't know if they still have it, but it had a 3-D part featuring The Birds and it looked like the birds were flying right at you.
FC, Yeah, it terrified me and brother loved to tease me about it. I would be embarrassed to tell you how old I was when it came out
ReplyDeleteMatthew, ha, no, just one of the barn cats who went out and sat in the bird bath just after this series of photos. I have one of her too
WR, thanks, I liked the way it came out too and have it on my desk top
Blogger has been driving me nuts all week, but the price is right. lol My kids think I am a total idiot to have found it scary and won't even let me watch it because they find it so lame.
NW, it is really hard, although I keep trying. I really don't have enough zoom with just 3X to get what I want.
Stacy, I've never been, but I'll bet it would scare the socks off me if I went. I still can't watch horror movies, although I can read scary books a little...up to, but not including the level that Stephen King uses. too much imagination I guess.
I could lend you some dogs guaranteed to whittle down the bird numbers.
ReplyDeleteHi Jan, do they do pigeons? Because if they do, bring 'em on!
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