Entired yard covered in black birds this morning.

[Ekirh]

So wake up.. very late (Still sick) .. and I open up the door . . and lo and behold the entire yard is covered in birds. Not only my yard but the neighbor's yard. I couldn't see ground at all.


Then they all rosed up and flew away at the same time . . it was a massive shroud just rising into the sky and flying off. Was actually kind of creepy.


What a way to start the day.

[mainegreen]

1. Yeah, but they took care of that body in the yard, didn't they?

:D

[raccoon]

2. We have those birds here too (SC). They make a lot of racket. WHen you startle them, they all fly

off.

I don't find them creepy. I like them.

But I can see how it might remind somebody of THE BIRDS.

[SallyMander]

3. Probably European starlings

Did they look a little shiny/"oily"?

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

4. Sign of bad weather, usually leaving hardened ice on the ground. n/t

[Swede]

5. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - Wallace Stevens

I
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.

II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

III
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

IV
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

VI
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

VII
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?

VIII
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

IX
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

X
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.

XI
He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.

XII
The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.

XIII
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.

[UTUSN]

6. Best previous DU post in response to this:

"Nothing to worry about, unless there's been a new, cool, suspicious blonde in town lately."

[quip]

8. With 2 love birds in tow....

:scared:

[UTUSN]

9. I should have said "mysterious" instead of "suspicious" and the "new" is redundant:

As in,

"Nothing to worry about, unless there's been a cool, mysterious blonde in town lately."

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. WHAT...is the airspeed velocity of an unladen raven?

[quip]

10. What do you mean? African or European?

[SeattleGirl]

11. That's happened to me about three times.

Birds completely covering the yard, weighing down trees, lined up on power lines. Straight out of "The Birds." Creepy! :scared: