Never mind Hitchcock. Have you been watching "Zoo"? Pretty good
nature-gone-bizarre series on CBS, written by James Patterson.
>
>Not sure what they are. Sparrows? Who knows. I'm not a bird guy. But
>this morning as I let the dog out for her morning constitutional, a
>flock of birds lit off from the trees a block away and thereabouts and
>flew past our house. While I'm not the best at estimating crowd
>numbers, what I did was counted in a segment and started multiplying
>to get a larger segment then estimated the number of those segments.
>
>Conservatively, there were about 50 thousand birds that flew past the
>house. It took about five minutes for the main flock to pass by and
>the stragglers were still still going past five minutes later. Another
>estimate based on time-density-frequency puts the flock at closer to
>60 thousand birds. I estimate 200 birds per second, times five
>minutes. The density and speed was consistent throughout the main
>ascension.
>
>So, whatever they were, they had our dog's attention as they flew
>past. I think she was smart enough to figure that barking at one or
>two birds was safe, but that crowd warranted keeping her mouth shut in
>case they all decided to attack.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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