The Birds

We walked out of a restaurant on 10th Street in McAllen, Texas, at dusk and thought we had stepped into Alfred Hitchcock's movie, "The Birds". There were literally thousands and thousands of birds . . . some type of black bird with a wide tail. A large bird about the size of a blue jay. There were large flocks . . . literally clouds of birds . . . all screaming loudly and swarming around the electric lines and poles along the street.














They would all land on the wires, then something would set them off and they would all fly into the air again screaming loudly. After several swings around the shopping area, they would all settle back on the wires and set for a few moments until something set them off again.

We drove North up 10th Street from there and saw more thousands of the same birds on the wires and in the air for a mile or more. And all of them appeared very nervous, setting, then flying, then returning to the wires.

I had never seen birds acting in this way . . . especially in such large numbers . . . except in Alfred Hitchcock's film, "The Birds". It was kind of spooky!