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February 25, 2005
The Birds
Picture this: I'm minding my own business, walking back from the mailbox, sorting through the mail...Visa bill, invitation to some home party thing, random flier, AAA maga...what the???? Suddenly I realize that there is literally a RIVER of birds flying above my head. It went as far as I could see in both directions. They were flying in a very specific stream. It was nuts. None of them veered off. None of them stopped to powder their beaks, that I could see. They were flying who knows where to do who knows what.
My brother often comments about the vast amount of crows that seem to hover around here. Each year they come back and I guess this year is an exceptionally popular year for them. Once in a while we can hear them in the nearby field...over the din of the traffic on 741!!! It's a little frightening, to be honest. I don't have any weird phobias or anything and I've never seen the Alfred Hitchcock film...but I don't like having that many of anything flying over my head. YIKES.
I surfed a tiny bit and found a couple of articles for your reading pleasure. This one is a link to local news channel WGAL about the possibility of enlisting falcons to help control the population. I also have a friend who wouldn't mind getting in on the action...
This article is Pro Crow.
This quote is the ending sentence of the Pro Crow link. “What I want people to see when they see a flock is not a gang of thugs but a close-knit family ... like a family going to the mall.” Interestingly enough, I live right behind Park City Mall. HMmmmmmm.
Posted by stacey at February 25, 2005 05:55 PM