Birds. Birds! BIRDS EVERYWHERE!! They're following me! ACK!
I've mentioned before about the long desolate journey I have every day to work. And I've mentioned some of the ...odd ... wildlife I've seen. So last night, driving home, I was swooped by a bird. (It may have been a bat, but who can tell when it's dark?) It was an omen, though, of my pending morning commute. (Cue the menacing "Twilight Zone" theme music here...)
This morning, I passed a rafter of turkeys. They were congregated in the large area around (I kid you not) the Etowah County Bow Hunters range. Maybe they had a death wish? Or maybe they were showing their machismo and daring the bow hunters to take the field? I don't know, but they were looking at me as though *I* might be Thanksgiving dinner, not them!
Later, I saw a murder of crows perched among the branches of an enormous dead tree. Can you say "creepy"? Just imagine - the skeleton of an oak, filled with large black birds silhouetted against the rising sun. Yeah. "Creepy" about sums it up.
There's a beautiful creek area on my way to work, too. It's a nearly mile-long stretch where the road crosses several creeks feeding into the nearby Coosa River. What did I see? Swans! Black ones and white ones! At least these birds didn't seem menacing in any way... but after my first two experiences - and the fact that Halloween approacheth - I'm staying on my guard!
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I remember driving home one night about 10 years ago on October 31. The sun was setting, and 10 vultures were sitting on an old dead tree in the middle of a field, silhouetted against the red sky. It was one of the creepiest things I have ever seen.
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