Participant Photo: The Birds

Well, what excitement this past week! We were invaded by hundreds of first of season birds beginning with loads of Common Grackles and soon followed by tons of Brown-headed Cowbirds and barrels full of Red-winged Blackbirds! It felt like Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds”, only this wasn’t on a movie screen but real life! We half expected to see Tippy Hendron dashing up and banging on our front door! With each passing day more and more arrived until it seemed like they were shoulder to tail covering every inch of our yard. And, of course, every few minutes, they would all take off as one to the tops of our trees only to return again in a matter of a few more minutes.