Somewhere, Alfred Hitchcock Smiles
While out in the neighborhood Wednesday and Thursday, Val and I noticed a large amount of blackbirds and crows flying around and squawking.
Friday, while I was taking Walker Evans on his walk, these birds were particularly flying in large numbers and loading up telephone wires, houses and trees. There were at least hundreds, if not thousands, of the blackbirds and crows flying around, and at one point, as Walker Evans and I proceeded down Norwood Avenue from Bryant Street to Summer Street, they seemed to be following us, filling up tree after tree as well as some telephone lines, until we got just before the end of the block, when the birds took an apparent turn toward Richmond Avenue.
We have always gotten a lot of these birds, and noisy ones, for years, but I do not remember this kind of activity. Did anyone else on the West Side, or in Buffalo or Western New York, get this kind of bird reaction recently?
Friday, while I was taking Walker Evans on his walk, these birds were particularly flying in large numbers and loading up telephone wires, houses and trees. There were at least hundreds, if not thousands, of the blackbirds and crows flying around, and at one point, as Walker Evans and I proceeded down Norwood Avenue from Bryant Street to Summer Street, they seemed to be following us, filling up tree after tree as well as some telephone lines, until we got just before the end of the block, when the birds took an apparent turn toward Richmond Avenue.
We have always gotten a lot of these birds, and noisy ones, for years, but I do not remember this kind of activity. Did anyone else on the West Side, or in Buffalo or Western New York, get this kind of bird reaction recently?
posted by Kevin J. Hosey at 4:45 PM
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