How To Catch A Blackbird
I know that
hundreds of species and millions of individual animals all catch birds as part
of survival necessity. Still, I consider
it odd that I do, too.
Early in 1993,
I walked up to a squawking argument of blackbirds. Several were on the ground in front of the
warehouse where I worked, with more of them hopping on the ground at my feet.
I
snatched him out of his group with enough speed that the other birds didn’t
even fly off.The bird was totally
shocked, and took a second to realize he was indeed captured.
My co-worker's mouths dropped, and my embarrassment
was pretty immediate once I saw how weird they thought it was.
I walked out
into the parking lot, admonishing the chagrined and loud blackbird to be more
alert. With an overhead Aesop's toss, I
flung him back into the air to return to his bewildered chums.
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