[va-richmond-general] Birds and more birds this morning

  • From: "Jim Blowers" <jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:22:07 -0500

My kitchen fluorescent light would not work this morning, so I went to Home
Depot to get new bulbs. When I entered, I heard a flwuuush! and then I saw a
black bird inside the depot fly at and hit the window to the outside. It
fell behind a large box, so I went outside to look at it. It was still
flying around, and then I went inside again and did not hear any more from
it. It looked like a juvenile starling.

 

When I got home, I saw hundreds of birds in my yard and the neighbor's yard.
My arriving caused them all to fly to a neighbor's house. These were black
birds with iridescence, and I felt that they were starlings, but they could
be grackles, too. I think they had the light-colored beaks of a starling. I
chased them off and they flew into someone's back yard.

 

I turned around and saw a pileated woodpecker pecking at the neighbor's
tree. Its pointed head was going way back and forth hammering away at the
tree - I wonder if it gets a headache. After pecking away at the tree, it
flew off to high on a tree across the street.

 

Don't have to go anywhere to see all kinds of birds.

 

Jim Blowers

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