Birds descended upon our farm this week like… like… like LOTS and LOTS of birds raining down on my head.
Not really. I hid inside the house.
I mean, come on. One cat might not be all that scary (Yes it would be. I am terrified of cats.) but thousands of them would be, right?
The poop alone is reason enough to stay inside.
Come to think of it, there’s an awful lot of that inside too.
There’s no escaping the poop.
They just kept coming and coming and coming – landing on our freshly harvested soybean field and eating what they could find.
These photos don’t show how many there really were.
I had birds in my front yard.
In my back yard.
In my side yard (Yes. This is what my window really looks like. I feel bad about not washing them but really, why bother when the tractors just get them dirty all over again?))
It’s like they were arriving in shifts.
And they kept flying in until (I suppose) the last morsel was gone from the fields.
I think this was a preview of what Thanksgiving will be like at my house.
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It’s a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie! That would freak me out too.
Ditto what carrielt said! I would have had my boys run through the field chasing them, they’d love that. And as far as your window… I’m with ya on that one. And dusting too! I HATE dusting.
That is really creepy. Stephen King wrote a book (Dark Half). It had birds in it also. They weren’t good birds either.
Birds absolutely amaze me! I would have had fun taking pictures.
Wow! How amazing!
Woah! That’s a lot of birds. And I am also scared of cats.
You’re afraid of cats? Surely you couldn’t be afraid of an innocent baby like this!
That scared me a little just looking at those pictures. I also hate big cities because pigeons freak me out on a very deep level. Weird cooing and waddling everywhere.
Liz: Pigeons are just nasty birds, and they like to live in concrete plants!
When I was running a concrete plant in Norfolk, the plant itself was not completely sealed, and pigeons could get in. The electric room, on the third floor of the cement section, was a particular pigeon hangout. Unfortunately, there was a re-set button that had to be pushed after every lightening storm.
— Warning! Read no further if you have a weak stomach! —
I kept a flat-end shovel outside of the electric room, because I literally had to shovel up the pigeon poop to walk over to that reset. The whole place stank.
That would totally freak me out!
Reminds me of “The Birds” too. Ick. I can remember the birds pecking on the people. I would hide inside too!
I don’t do birds. Period. Stay inside, wash hands, cover head. Don’t wash any windows either, total waste.
Do you get this many birds every year? How long do they stay? Yikes.
I’m not scared of birds or cats. Dogs and creepy things tho in a huge way.
Kath, my dad says that when birds fly in like that it means that snow is coming. Come to think of it, we did get flurries the next day.
They only stayed about 30 minutes. Just long enough to pick the field clean.
Ok, that many birds is just freaky. But I’m someone who freaks out when birds fly over me…huge fear of them pooping on me. Ew.
But now I am going to have to pay attention next year when we harvest the field next to the house…I wonder if we get that many birds too and I’ve just never noticed it??
And window washing is completely overrated
CREEPY!!!
They must have finally made it from my house. That’s how it was at my house a couple of weeks ago. If I walk close to my field thousands of them would fly out of the grass. The telephone and electric lines were covered with thousands of them. I hate it when they do that.
The pictures are great. I have seen that happen here with ducks and geese. The grandchildren are afraid of the geese. I couldn’t tell what kind of birds you have. I guess they love soybeans. Doylene
That is so so so amazing!!! I have never seen anything like it!! What is the cause of it? Has it been seen before in your area? Wow!
Ruth xx
Neat pictures! I just can’t quit thinking about all that bird poop.
Stay inside!! And play – those windows look just fine to me.
Thanks for responding to my question about the gas!
I have seen birds do this out in the country where I am from but I did not think they would flock like this in the city. I was totally wrong. When the time changes in the fall the birds flock to the trees surrounding a gas station which is on my way home. It is quite scary and loud and makes me avoid that place at all costs. I can only imagine what it must have been like to have that many kazillions of birds flocking around your home!