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Young boy treed by wild birds
Father narrowly escapes
Young boy trapped in play structure: Wild birds lured in by food discarded by squirrels (note the bird feeder)Well, in my defense, I had to sneak away to get the camera so that I could blog this...
Yes as Rolly and I were playing in his new play structure we heard a tremendously loud flurry, a thundering flutter of seemingly thousands of wings as we were descended upon by a flock of wild birds in a scene not unlike Alfred Hitchcock's Birds. "AIIIIEEEEE" screamed Rolly jumping the rest of the way up ladder into the safety of his father's arms. His father gasped in surprise at the nearness of this bird encounter and slowly peered around his son to see what visions of horror had invaded his backyard.
"It's ducks."
"two ducks."
"Boy that was pretty loud wasn't it?"
Vicious and Bloodthirsty: Vicious is the one on the leftRolly looked over and became fascinated in the horror (I am sure they were vicious ducks). We couldn't look away. It was like staring at a train wreck, you just can't turn your eyes away from the terror that had over run our yard.
"Daddy! Look! Ducks! Mommy duck! Daddy duck!"
Well, ok, technically this vicious flock of ducks could be a small, possibly friendly, family unit. But who knew?
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I am sure it's just the angle of the picture, but that swingset looks pretty crooked.
Optical illusion ... yeah ...
They are hightailing it away from here.
"Canada's government was investigating an oil-sands company after hundreds of ducks that landed on a partially frozen pond filled with toxic waste died."
Yeah, that's a real head-scratcher.
It is a known fact that mallards engage in gang rape: http://gregbeck.blogspot.com/2004/11/blast-from-past-something-i-call.html
And you expose your son to this.... my god....
Although that blogger should stay in school... or at least think really really hard about why chickens don't have penises before advertising their ignorance on the worldwideweb.
They're almost as bad as geese, probably due to some kind of Avian Napoleon Complex. You would probably be okay with up to 4 of them, but a larger flock would be cause for concern. Even one can give you shivers if you look into its cold, calculating eyes.