Death By Pecking

All day I dreaded going up to that closed-off room on the third floor. I just knew that bird was still in there right where I saw him on the weekend, batting against the window-glass, crashing and splashing like the heart in your very chest during the worst nightmare but No. It was quiet. Maybe it went out as it had come in, through the one place in the eave not crammed with insulation.So need for the nets and tennis racquet this time thank God, thank God.Flying creatures put a fear in me like Tippi Hedren showed in “The Birds", the way they can just come at you like that. The way they just won’t stop. I think of the poor guy who smelled so bad he fled to an island paradise - where, walking the beach on his very first day, he got pecked to death by seagulls. This picture above was caught by the motion-activated wildlife camera David got for Father's Day and what on earth kind of a bird is THAT?Now check out this collage of clips from this great Hitchcock film and you tell me: Do the birds attack because of Tippi’s smug schoolmarm way? Or is it that they’re just itching to dismantle that prim hairdo? Tell you what I think: the chick is wearing a fur coat for like 90% of the film and those birds? Those birds all belong to PETA.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-c4JkFZRo&feature=related]