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Nancy Howell

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Anyone remember that movie?

Last night after doing my grocery shopping, I headed for my truck. When I got close to it, I saw the hood and cab were covered with several dozen nasty old grackles (not my favorite bird). Reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds".

Had to yell at them and wave my arms to get them off my truck. Of course they left numerous reminders that they had been there. Yuck.
 
I was probably still in elementary school when I saw that movie. Saw it on television. Not something a kid that age should be watching alone. lol
Anybody remember "Saturday Night at the Movies"? What was that? NBC? They went to Friday Night at the Movies too later on.
 
I read a story of how that movie was made, but forgot the details.
It was quiet an undertaking in that day to make the movie, everything had to be made on site or outdoors, and they didn't have advanced technology as of the present.
 
ohhh....good movie......rod taylor, tippi hedren, suzanne pleshette........and wasnt the little girl angela cartwright from lost in space??
 
I think Saturday Night at the Movies was in the mid 60's sometime- I think I was in high school. Kind of a big deal at the time- No one had shown fairly recent, big name movies in prime time before, and there was much speculation as to whether it would go over with the public.
 
Yup Rod Taylor passed only a couple of weeks ago. He was like 80 or 81 years old. If I had a time machine I would go and find Weena! Also she was Swedish!
 
That's funny ,I just bought that on VCR tape for 25 cents at a sale because I forgot half the movie. Only Hitchcock could make birds scary.
 
I grew up and live not too far from Nancy and James' farm. I remember years ago the blackbird flocks that came down here for the winter (actually the flocks were a polyglot mixture of blackbirds, red wings, grackles, cow birds and who knows what else.) These flocks numbered in the hundreds of thousands. They would hit a field like a black, rolling wave, scratching and devouring (what?) then, on some unheard signal, the birds would rise as one beast, making an ungodly roar.

Late in the evenings they would fly to their roosting spot--usually the same one each night--where they disappeared into the foliage, filling every branch, emitting a constant chirpy, chattery cacaphony (the 'caca' misspelling is deliberate.) These evening flights were fascinating: in the distance you could see black clouds, approaching from different directions, but all heading in the same direction. Some of the flocks were so large it took ten minutes or more for all the birds to pass overhead. (I use the word 'overhead' for illustrative purposes only---you didn't want to be standing out in the open looking up.) Of course this was happening within the vista of wherever I happened to be at the time. I had to suppose that other such flocks, beyond the scope of my vantage point, were making similar flights.

I still see some of these flocks, but they seem to be fewer and smaller, seemingly experiencing the fate of many other species that have disappeared around here.
 
Yes. The males have long "V" shapes tails. They make and ugly chip sound. For being on the endangered list, we sure have a bumper crop of them in Tx.
 
I have read that many of our songbirds (not grackles) have been decimated by as much as 75% due to feral cats and loss of habitat.

Years ago, we had quail at the farm, but no blue jays. Now, we have blue jays, but no quail. I'd rather have the quail.
 
I remember seeing that movie when I was about 14 or so, had to go out and disk plow with the mm U the next day, no cab of course, must of been 1000 seagulls following me around looking for what ever I turned up. Made me really nervous about getting attacked. I still think about that when they are following me around a field. Cab now, not so nervous.....

Dick ND
 
I had never heard of a murmuration until recently, it is a large flock of birds flying in sinc, amazing how they can fly in formation without crashing into each other, how do they know which way to turn?
murmuration
 
Nancy, how often do you see a road-runner these days? I haven't seen one in years. Used to see two or three every time you drove a few miles.
 
We still see one occasionally. Neat birds. I have a few pics of them at the farm.

A couple of years ago, we had one that was unusually friendly. He would show up when James was out on the tractor and even "played" with Lola. Wish we had a video of that.
 
It has been a few years since we had a road runner.

At first the bird stayed near the woods.

Later it would come close to the tractor shed and tease the dog to chase it.

Sure miss our road runner.
 
Yes, it was running on one of the classic movie channels on Dish last night.
Maybe they stopped to rest on your truck on their way to a "The Birds" film festival ?? :)
 
Don't cultivate and look up at the gulls on an open station tractor with your mouth open. Don't ask how I know this.

Do you know that gull poop tastes salty ? Dont ask How I know this ?? :)
 
I live near Coshocton ohio, commonly called "crow town", every winter there are thousands of crows roosting in town and along the river. last year they used fireworks to try to keep them out of town. this year not so bad
 
If I remember hearing correctly, when the people were running with a bird on their back they had to tie the birds to them.
 
ckain(mi)
The reason is kinda sorta complicated and difficult to expain, but I can tell you better than I can explain to you.
The best way to tell yo is, there are more byrds on the longer side.
 
That movie scared the bejeebers out of me when I was a kid. Would explore the farm with my trusty dog....

then turn around to go home, there would be ominous looking BIRDS everywhere. You've never seen a little girl run across 80 acres so fast in your life. LOL
 
Was on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) last night. Must have been Rod Taylor night because before it came on, I caught the end of "Time Machine", I think it was called. Back to back Rod Taylor, but I was too tired to stay up and watch it. I didn't realize that Rod Taylor was Australian, but they said he was from down under. To this day, my oldest sister is scared of birds, having seen "The Birds" in the late 60's. Part of the movie that is most memorable to me was when the birds attacked the town causing the gas station to explode and burn down a lot of stuff including the Farmall dealership. Seeing those tractors burn bothered me.

Mark
 
We got to go to Australia in '13 and toured around the Cannes area. They have bats in the trees in the middle of town that fly over to an island to eat fruit insects. Every evening right at dusk the sky is filled with bats. They had a wingspan/size similar to a cardinal. They supposedly didn't return until dawn. That was an amazing/eerie site to see.
 
The Grackle is the nuisance bird here too. Seem to prefer the WM parking lot; never see them anywhere else and they treat our vehicles same as yours. Now who'd ever thought that they are federally protected but I was told that they are.

Mark
 
You have a school of fish, a covey of quail, a herd of sheep, a clutch of biddies, a gaggle of geese, a flock of chickens, a rafter of turkeys, a drove of cows, a pride of lions, a litter of puppies, a pack of wolves.

What do you have with a group of crows?
 
(quoted from post at 13:32:02 01/31/15) You have a school of fish, a covey of quail, a herd of sheep, a clutch of biddies, a gaggle of geese, a flock of chickens, a rafter of turkeys, a drove of cows, a pride of lions, a litter of puppies, a pack of wolves.

What do you have with a group of crows?
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A murder of crows.
 
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