November 2: Massing grackles
Nov. 3rd, 2010 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neverspentSeasonal first: I got out my tiny space heater because it was 60 F or less in my apartment! Happiness.
The day started gray and cool and windy, and ended cool and rainy and very windy. I wish I'd made a recording of the wind howling in my window frame! Very wintry sound.
Grackles—medium-size black birds with glossy feathers on the males and piercing, round yellow eyes—don't live here in large numbers in the summer, but they do seem to congregate in the fall and winter. In groups, they can be very loud and sometimes have an eerie, creaky call. The trees outside my balcony were host to a flock of them during the afternoon. They flitted in and among the branches, one by one, but when they realized I was watching them, they started to leave in twos and threes and fly across the street.
The day started gray and cool and windy, and ended cool and rainy and very windy. I wish I'd made a recording of the wind howling in my window frame! Very wintry sound.
Grackles—medium-size black birds with glossy feathers on the males and piercing, round yellow eyes—don't live here in large numbers in the summer, but they do seem to congregate in the fall and winter. In groups, they can be very loud and sometimes have an eerie, creaky call. The trees outside my balcony were host to a flock of them during the afternoon. They flitted in and among the branches, one by one, but when they realized I was watching them, they started to leave in twos and threes and fly across the street.