Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Birds

This is just weird. We went to Walmart earlier this week. When we got done with our shopping and came back out, it was about 5:45, we noticed this unbelievable cacophony of bird calls. Hundreds upon hundreds (probably thousands) of these blackbirds were flying all around, chirping and calling and crying. They were flocking to the trees in the parking lot from all over the sky, wave after wave after wave of them. It was like a mega-convention for blackbirds in the Walmart parking lot. It's hard to see from the video, but the trees are completely, totally filled with these birds. I've never seen or heard anything like it.

Have you seen the old Alfred Hitchcock movie, "The Birds?" It was like that. So very strange.

1 comment:

Kelly said...

I've noticed these birds like that before sometimes while living here. It's wild and it also reminded me of the classic movie. It's freaky, and I remember looking around at other people and wondering whey they didn't seem to be phased at all by the thousands of birds everywhere.