Comments on: Four and Twenty [Gazillion] Blackbirds.

By: Ed T.

Ed T. — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:12:02 +0000

Jim,

Perhaps a better response would have been, “What birds?”…

By: Catfish

Catfish — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:04:28 +0000

Better watch out Jimbo, they will shit on your head, Cat

By: Jim - Parkway Rest Stop

Jim - Parkway Rest Stop — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:42:37 +0000

Joated - Yep, that describes them pefectly. They moved like a school of fish and were chowing down on whatever on lawns. Must be grackles. As you can see, I know about as much about boids as I do computers.

By: mr. helpful

mr. helpful — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:31:28 +0000

maybe alfred hitchcock had come back from the dead to film a sequel to “the birds”??

By: joated

joated — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:45:32 +0000

It’s funny, Jim. .We had a flock of grackles (your blackbirds, I’m guessing) in our yard all day. I was watching them carefully and they were eating small acorns from some of the oaks surrounding the house.

I see flocks like this every fall and, once I get past the noise they create, enjoy watching them as they move about like a school of fish–swooping and swirling from place to place. Sometimes they seem to be spooked by the shadows, a hawk, the neighbor’s cat, or a truck applying its breaks. What ever sets them off doesn’t scare them for long and they settle back down to their feeding.