Birds Just Like the Old Movie

Posted on July 21, 2012 by farside

Remember that movie “The Birds”  a horror flick from 1963?

Birds congregating on the high line wire

Chance and I ran to the post office in Ponsford and took the gravel road on the way back.  We slowed down to take some photos of the Barn Swallow Gathering.

The gathering

They were everywhere along the road. Swooping and darting over the fields, often stopping to rest in the middle of the road.  I am not sure why they were gathered..maybe they was a yummy insect hatch and they were all waiting for the feast to begin.

I don’t like scary movies and as I recall that movie “The Birds” was awfully scary:(

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One Response to Birds Just Like the Old Movie

  1. kay syvrud(buffalogal) says:
    July 21, 2012 at 8:25 am

    TH BIRDS…a masterpiece of horror from an ordinary thing…..birds in a small California town. Our third son and his wife love Hitchcock movies so much they went to Bodega Bay where the movie was shot. It was one of the most scary movies I ever saw too..but PSYCHO outdid it..by Hitchcock of course.
    The swallows may have been feasting on gnats…the gnats feasted on me when we buried our pet.