{"id":4533,"date":"2009-10-12T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2010-02-16T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:49:18","slug":"4-and-20-thousand-blackbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/4-and-20-thousand-blackbirds","title":{"rendered":"4 and 20 (thousand) blackbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday morning, whie Amy napped, I heard the CAW!s of The Blackbird Gang right outside my window. I took a look outside and discovered that our backyard was their newest turf:<\/p>\n

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I was worried that blackbird-on-blackbird violence might lead to a drop in our property values, but the upside of roving gangs like this is that they never spend more than 10 minutes in one place. Really: hundreds of birds descended on our yard, filling the trees, noshing on our weeds, chattering away on a Saturday morning, and then one of them got the signal, and they all flew off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday morning, whie Amy napped, I heard the CAW!s of The Blackbird Gang right outside my window. I took a look outside and discovered that our backyard was their newest turf: I was worried that blackbird-on-blackbird violence might lead to a drop in our property values, but the upside of roving gangs like this … <\/p>\n

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