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.
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