Dance of the Birds

Once again, I was not able to take a picture of the event I want to describe, but I tried to find a picture that was relatively close.  When I was volunteering at the Food Forest I saw another very peculiar event involving birds.  As my friend Marlena and I were helping a couple of the boys making a table with the scrap wood Erica, the Food Forest co-creator, had left over in the shed, a girl called everyone's attention to the sky.  When I looked, I was amazing at what I saw.  A massive horde of birds were dipping and swirling together as a giant flock over one area of the forest.  It was among the most strangest behaviors I have ever witnessed from birds before, yet it was also beautiful.  It looked like the birds were dancing with the wind, moving up, down and around while being perfectly in sync with one another.  At one point, they even looked like an enormous tornado, all spinning down at whatever their target was.  One of the girls helping us build the table told us that her mother explained the fantastic display as the birds chasing and catching mosquitoes for their lunch. Well, whatever had caused the birds to behave this way, it was definitely worth it to see such a sight.  The entire volunteer group, including Erica, just stood there for a couple of minutes and watched as the birds waltzed across the sky.