The other day I look out my back window onto my little piece of Benicia Real Estate and see, what appears to be hundreds of birds(black some brown some with red wings tips) flocking toour backyard.  They swooped in with a rush and landed twittering and bumping into each other.  It did not take much to make them take flight all at the same time, once again bumping into each other as they flapped their wings and tried to appear as those air force planes flying in formation.

I thought they had left for greener yard, er, pastures as we do back to open space in Benicia. Yesterday morning down the street and round the corner, the "Birds" were touching down in a neighbor's front yard.

and I thought the other day was just a freak of nature......

Today as I am doing some work from my lazy girl chair, they appear again.  I swear it is something out of Alfred Hitchcock's "Birds", which was filmed near Bodega Bay, CA, but this Benicia, CA and my back yard not a school house where the blonde actress was scared.

I was not scared but entertained as they danced on the lawn and danced in the air.  Back and forth from the neighbor's back yard and back to ours. Swooping up and then making a sharp turn to the left and then the right.  With a clatter they landed on our tile roof. and this is not Christmas Eve, but I do know the sound of pattering bird feet!

An hour later there is peace and quiet in the backyard, just the butterflies, occasional hawk and of course a few straggling black birds and me resting in my lazy girl chair with my laptop.  I guess the stragglers did not get the message to move on.  And no one got attacked!  I wish I could have captured the flight but they all were flying so fast to catch up with each other.