Yeah, I know, Black Bird's heading south. This was a spiritual moment this morn while walking the dog in local park at 6:30AM. My King Sheppard stopped and looked behind us toward the NE, ears cocked, as if listening to something unfamiliar. He grew very alert and froze. I heard nothing for about 20 seconds, then, a weird sound could be heard in the distance. It sounded like a blend of steam fizzling out of a pressure cooker and a fast crackling fire. My 149 pound canine began to growl. Yep, you guessed it, a flock of blackbirds roughly 600 feet wide, 50 feet deep and 1500 feet long flew over, heading due SW into a beautiful red/orange sunrise. Made out R-W Blackbirds in the low flying bunch, but I'm sure others were in the mix. Several minutes later, a comparable flock ditoed. As the second flew directly overhead, you could hear the Check! Check! in the blended cacophony of sounds. If each flock took up roughly, and I do mean conservatively ROUGHLY, 45,000,000 cubic feet (60 X 50 X 1,500) of airspace, and each bird occupied 2 cubic feet of space (They were very compacted together), that would make 22,500,000 blackbirds per flock. Tell me I didn't witness 45,000,000 blackbirds fly over me this AM! One Balckbird flying SW does not make it Fall, but 45,000,000 do!! Robert in Fremont.
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