Saturday, March 26, 2011

A Scene From Alfred Hitchcock...

It was a fine evening. 

The sun had shone all day and the weather was warm enough to leave the door open on the mother ship. 

The dogs and I decided to spend the evening basking in the lovely breezes while I tried out my new anti-gravity lounger.  Ah, the halcyon days of spring...

Yeah, I know the halcyon days are of summer, but this spring day, it was so lovely and I am not a hot weather person, preferring spring and fall to the heat of summer or the cold of winter, so my halcyon days happen in spring...

I looked up and saw some birds come in to roost in the trees that were visible over the roof of the mother ship.




They were these giant black birds with rather unpleasant bird voices.   Oh well, it was such a beautiful evening all creatures were welcomed with open arms...

Then, I saw some fluttering and in came some buddies...




And then some more...

Then, more and the trees were filling up...



And still they came, raspy, crow voices cawing...




The skies were filled with the big black birds...





Then, it became so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
All of a sudden, they seemed to have some infighting (or maybe the tree was so full that the branches were beginning to bend under the weight of the ever increasing flock) so some of them took flight to the trees over our heads...


All of a sudden, Tango, who was sleeping in my lap, jumped up and became agitated...


What is it little Tango?  Is Timmy stuck in the well?
Oh, sorry!!  Wrong show!!!
It's Okay Tango, I said, lie down and go back to sleep--they're just silly birds like Heckle and Jeckle I soothed...


More flew in overhead and the noise grew and grew...



 Uh, and grew!!!!   Now I knew what they felt like when the birds were flocking in during the movie, The Birds!!!!


Tango leaped up again and this time, I felt it too!!!!

The birds....

Not only were they LOUD...

They pooped right on us!!!!!

We ran for the mother ship, but not before being pelted several more times!!!

For the next several evenings, right around dusk, those little devils would come in and christen everything around!  It was too windy to put out the awnings, so we would head inside when we heard them coming...

Now I truly know the meaning of the term "Dirty Bird"--and so does Tango...

4 comments:

  1. A bird pooped on me in college. I was minding my own business, sitting on the concrete wall along the steps to McDonald Arena, soaking up the spring sun and chatting with my cronies. Next thing I knew, they were slapping their knees, hee-hawing at the green stain with black seeds decorating the white cotton leg of my blue-striped Adidas shorts.

    Because that's how people roll in southwest Missouri.

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  2. A free facial!! Poor Tango, he looks indignant.

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  3. Kathy--I don't care WHAT Kathy Lee and Hoda do, I WON'T do a bird poop facial!!!! Ick!!!

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  4. At least I won't do a bird poop facial on purpose!!!!

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