True story:
It's a Tuesday like any other. I am hard at work at my desk or hard at looking like I'm at work anyway (the line is often blurred) when I hear a loud BANG! from one of the outer offices. The woman in this office is scared to death, shouting "JESUS!" in that split second after a bang that's reached only by primal instinct. I look over and I see feathers out her window, fluttering in the air. I know what you're thinking...A bird hit the window, so what. Hardly story-worthy. But there's more...
So she gets up and looks out her window to see what it was exactly had slammed so hard into the window, but it's not a bird that she sees. It's an entire flock of birds. Their bodies litter the sidewalk below. I got up from my desk and looked out to see it for myself. You couldn't count them there were so many. I would find out the next day from the first floor tenants who picked them up that were 26 birds in total. Yet the sound was one single bang.
Twenty-six birds crash against an office window, lay dead on the ground below. It's the opening to a horror movie, is it not?
It was an eery and upsetting sight. Luckily, we were told the next day that 9 of them actually lived and had only been dazed by the impact. They were released and flew away.
1 comment:
that is so sad ;( i'm glad some survived. i woulda cried. a wee birdie flew into my living room window a few years ago...i was so upset, watching him, no longer able to fly or walk, but still breathing. i wished i could have done something for him...then 10-15 mins passed and he flew away! resilient little bugger! but a flock? yeah i would have been traumatized.
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