And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Was in Collage Station TX, at one intersection all the birds would land on the cables running across the road 4 sq, reminded me of the movie The Birds, so does the mass flying in the picture
Texas A&M, 1974-1978. The flocks of starlings were so bad that the bird shit would be inches deep under their roosting trees. The school started spraying something into the trees, close to evening. I understood it was something that destroyed the oil on their feathers, causing them to die of exposure. In the mornings there would be dozens of dead birds on the ground, and many that were staggering around with their feathers all spread out and their beaks wide open. Nasty.
No. They are birds.
ReplyDeleteMurmurations of discontent
ReplyDeletePretty sure that Swallows in England, apparently happens often. Hitchcock has nothing on that swarm.
ReplyDeleteWas in Collage Station TX, at one intersection all the birds would land on the cables running across the road 4 sq, reminded me of the movie The Birds, so does the mass flying in the picture
ReplyDeleteNo, just the end of a few auto paint jobs.
ReplyDeleteStarlings most likely. And the reason there's so many is we don't eat them, yet.
ReplyDeleteThink of those thousands of birds doing such maneuvers in formation; human pilots could not even come close! And we call them 'bird brains'!
ReplyDeleteWe have that in North Texas all the time.
ReplyDeleteThey're not locusts fercrissakes.
ReplyDeleteWhich bird leads and transmits the formation to the other birds?
ReplyDeleteTexas A&M, 1974-1978. The flocks of starlings were so bad that the bird shit would be inches deep under their roosting trees. The school started spraying something into the trees, close to evening. I understood it was something that destroyed the oil on their feathers, causing them to die of exposure. In the mornings there would be dozens of dead birds on the ground, and many that were staggering around with their feathers all spread out and their beaks wide open. Nasty.
ReplyDeletethe city of Rome has a crew that goes around with a bullhorn broadcasting the starling distress cry. They go elsewhere.
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