Tip Your Head, Run!

I have heard two stories within the last few days of bird attacks. The first is from a friend with a daughter in another city. A red-wing blackbird nesting near her house has buzzed neighbors, even snatching hairs from atop some heads. At our boarding barn, the barn swallows have turned nasty. One of the cats was walking from one barn to another and was pecked so badly that she needed to go into the vet hospital. The other cats don’t wander across the parking lot unless they are under a wheelbarrow or can dart under a car.

We have heard about all the shark and alligator assaults. There are deer who not only wander into large shopping centers, but also become hostile. Maybe it’s global warming, the encroachment of civilization, or the Bush administration. But something is amok.

If there are lots of birds massing on the power wires above you, well…