....the only other thing of real interest was a small group of Cowbirds I saw yesterday. Now usually these birds are a pure white color but this group of about 8 had a yellow main color with the inner portion of their wings being a dark red and/or black maybe. I haven't seen any to match these here abouts. I've seen lots of the white ones though and they feast on the bugs which live on the cows' backs, and I've seen them flying in sequential groups of 8-10 as the go one direction (north east) in the mornings and then return heading south west in the evening. The return trip is awesome to view for the sky has turned darker and their white plumage is such a stark contrast. It's actually breath-taking.
The weirdest incident I've encountered with these birds happened a couple of times right here with me looking out the window in the morning. As I was waking up for work I noticed outside on the huge lawn, something moving, like as if the ground itself was moving. I began to notice it was a huge flock of these crane-like birds. They has settled, probably after dark, on this lawn within the confines of the double barbed-wire fence. When the sun began to announce the daybreak, the birds would move outward from their previously crowded nesting spot. And this was the really erie sight as they slowly crawled out to the point where one by one they arose into their take-off position and then did take flight! I've asked around and no one else seems to have witnessed this but me. Isn't that something?
