Bird Watcher...or is it birds that watch?

Make no mistake, I am a bird watcher. bird listener. bird lover. But today, it was like nature in reverse.  The birds were watching us...for hours!

There was a pack of birds that continued to lightly bounce off the windows, sit perched on the outside sills and look in the house. Not once, not twice, not a dozen times, but at least a hundred times if not more...it was the strangest thing. One son called it downright creepy and qualified his statement with reminding me of the old Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds!

 

All the commotion caused this little girl to break the sacred rule of no paws on the counters.

 {Notice the little splotch of mud above her eye and the wet fur. The mud spot is from knocking down tennis balls with her head.  Tennis balls she drops in the pool and then expects me to fetch them and toss them to her, over and over and over again. She's quite athletic and could catch them in the air if she wouldn't insist upon keeping one in her mouth at all times.}

 

Still a little baffled by this steady stream of window peekers today, but it sure was cute while it lasted. Hope your days was filled with some unexpected, delightful little surprises as well! 
 

Comments

[Beverly]

Sue, your post really makes me smile. Every spring we have bluebirds that are almost constantly on our windowsills. They peck at the windows to the point of making us a bit crazy. From what we have learned, they think they see another bird in their window reflection. Besides the constant pecking making us crazy, they leave droppings all over my windowsills. It would be one thing if I just had one windowsill to clean, but they graciously go to multiple windows. As much as I love bluebirds, I am always glad when they get past this time.

How did you like our Dukies?!!! I miss you.

[~*~Patty]

very odd ... in the past we've had kamikazee cardinals that would beat themselves into windows mercilessly and to our great annoyance as nothing would stop them from thinking they were attacking some handsome cardinal perhaps trying to take over their territory
last year we had a CRAZEE Robin Redbreast, it was not fun and I adore birds of all kinds!
At one point, I conjectured that perhaps overuse of fertilizers and such on so many American lawns is beginning to affect the bird population??? Come to think of it the bees have been a bit wonky too ... rutrow!
You certainly got some wonderful pictures!
oxo

[Linda Jo]

They had a special message for you, didn't they! Abit disturbing...but perhaps not. ha!