Yesterday evening, on the way home from work, I saw 3
flocks of blackbirds flying across 295.  The first
(largest) one I saw while I was stuck in the crawl of
traffic trying to merge onto 295.  The stream
stretched out as far as I could see in either
direction, and in the several minutes I was sitting
there it seemed the flock was neverending.  I love
fall blackbird flocks!  I think the first one I saw
was all grackles, but I'm never really sure...

Lynette
l_fullerton_1999 at yahoo . com


--- "Pfaffko, Mary (DDOE)" <>
wrote:

>  
> Yesterday afternoon I was forced to listen to DC101
> & the obnoxious dj was
> asking listeners from Gaithersburg/Rockville to look
> up at the sky & to call
> in & tell him if they saw something scary that
> occurs this time of year.
> 
> People called in saying, "clouds, early sunset,
> etc.," but the correct
> answer was "scary black birds."  They said it felt
> like they were in the
> Alfred Hitchcock movie.
> 
> Apparently there are "scary" black birds flocking in
> Gaithersburg/Rockville
> this time of year.  Anyone know what they are? 
> Crows?  Starlings?
> 
> Mary Pfaffko
> Washington, DC
> 


"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware--joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."        --Henry Miller

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