The Essential Byrds
About a hundred birds descended our backyard this afternoon. They were all tweeting or I’d have suspected a Hitchcock remake. It was still a little a creepy.
However, they were very pretty. Black birds with purple – blue incandescent colors. I’ve been informed they were Grackles. An ugly name for such a pretty bird. I’ve seen flocks like this before of course, but not in my back yard, so close to humans.
They left as suddenly as they came. All of them taking flight in sequence like they were doing the wave. I can’t help but wonder, where are they going? Why did they land here to begin with? At least for the fifteen minutes or so that they were around, the cats and I were truly intrigued.
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