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Back in the vicinity of our farm buildings, this grackle below came into view........although, he was way up high in an evergreen tree, obviously.
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Isn't he just rather unnerving and bizarre-looking?! The sight of him gives me the willies. Like he's something straight out of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (of course, he's only a grackle)......."Thus spake the Raven: 'Nevermore.......nevermore'.......". I don't remember if that's how it went, but it was something like that.
Yikes!.......this guy will give me nightmares tonight.........if I can get to sleep. Yes, Husband was snoring again last night, even with the Breathe Right strip on and the Snore Away spray in his throat. He's hopeless!
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I meant to, but forgot to use today's Dr. Dictionary word in the paragraphs about the robins. Well, here it is anyway: As I watched the flock of robins in the tree, it was impossible for me to tell which one was the bellwether. Look it up!
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3 comments:
I have never seen so many robins in one tree!! We don't get very many here in SC. We used to get lots of them up in CT. Now Grackles we have in abundance!!! I do not like them because they come in big flocks and eat all the seed I put out (in one day). The only way I have of discouraging them is to not put the seed out everyday. They are a pain--and they make a cacaphany (hmm sp?)
Oh, let's go to the tweedle-dee symposium to learn how to sing in a new key. Doesn't that sound fun?
Grackles and crows give me the creeps. Crows because of Stephen King's "The Stand" and grackles because they do look like a BELLWETHER (which I had to look up). I do love looking things up. They do look like an entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings.
Whew. Jeannelle. How do you come up with some of this stuff?!! How clever.
nannykim....That's too bad you don't have robins in your area. I can't imagine not having robins around.
Country Girl....you made me remember something: Back in junior high we had an English teacher who was quite a storyteller. Most of the time, that is what class was.....listening to him tell stories. But, he also gave us assignments to write silly, goofy stuff......kind of like the stories he liked to tell. At the time, I felt like we learned absolutely nothing from him.....but, maybe he was trying to teach us to be creative.
He's a farmer, too, and lives not far from me, having long ago retired from teaching. He and his wife adopted three Korean children around the time Husband and I had our first child. Our daughter and those three kids were great friends all through school, and one of them was a bridesmaid in my daughter's wedding last summer.
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