The other day while I was driving my bus I looked over and flying right along side of me was a Turkey. It surprised me so much I squealed. It was keeping pace with me and it was huge! I have never seen so many wild turkeys in my life as I have seen since living in Nauvoo and since I started riding the bus I realize there are a lot more than I even imagined. Seeing this turkey flying along the road home from Warsaw was hilarious.
On a similar note. We have had a massive amount of Turkey buzzards around lately. I don't remember ever seeing so many. I almost hit one with my bus the other day. He was feasting on some juicy road kill and as he tried to take off to avoid me the wind was blowing so hard he looked like he was hovering right in my path. I had to stop to avoid hitting him. He was huge! Saturday at the temple they were having trouble with 6 of these big birds perching on the tower. They had to turn up their "noise maker thingy" to try to scare them off but it took quite a while. We were up in the tower cleaning as it was the last day of shut down before the temple opened for the summer and it was really crazy hearing them scratching up on the dome and stuff. They finally flew off but it took a few hours to convince them it wasn't someplace they wanted to be.
On a final note.. Have you ever seen the Alfred Hitchcock movie "the Birds"? Ok I was at the school warming up my bus and I took this picture. I have never seen so many birds in my life at one time in one place. This picture does not even begin to show the magnitude of this experience. They would all land in the trees and you couldn't see them, but you could hear them and it was ear splitting. Then they would all take off, darken the sky. Do a little amazing choreography and land again. WOW!! Kinda creepy in a cool sort of way. I was glad I was "inside" my bus. :) Have a great day!
On a final note.. Have you ever seen the Alfred Hitchcock movie "the Birds"? Ok I was at the school warming up my bus and I took this picture. I have never seen so many birds in my life at one time in one place. This picture does not even begin to show the magnitude of this experience. They would all land in the trees and you couldn't see them, but you could hear them and it was ear splitting. Then they would all take off, darken the sky. Do a little amazing choreography and land again. WOW!! Kinda creepy in a cool sort of way. I was glad I was "inside" my bus. :) Have a great day!
7 comments:
I have a feeling s certain Nelson girl is not going to like this post!!
I however found it fascinating!!
Oh...my....gosh... Tuna warned me not to read this blog but I had to because I expect everyone to read my blogs so I have to read everyone elses blogs. I just want you to know I'll probably have nightmares for a week.
Wow, the pictures are amazing! I would have been a little freaked out with any of those situations.
Crazy! I think the birds are after you.
That is so crazy!
I'm about ready to take out all the birds that come around our house! They are trying to live in every crevice they can find in our house. Some nasty ones even pulled insulation out of the walls by Gabby's window to get in and make a little nest. No amount of pounding on the walls gets rid of them. Stupid birds!!!!
Ooooooo! And I like birds! Dad
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