Thursday, July 24, 2008

Crow Games: Train Blast

I was sitting in my car at the station waiting for my friend's train to arrive. After sitting there a while I heard a train in the distance. A couple of crows sailed down and settled on an old cracked concrete foundation about five feet square, located about eight feet from the tracks. Then more and more crows arrived in an obvious state of excitement, jockeying and switching positions on the concrete. As I sat there I wondered what they were up to, and why all the fuss. At that moment a train screamed through at top speed without stopping, creating a gale-force wall of air blasting them up and away, flapping and tumbling helplessly.

I enjoyed that, but not half as much as the crows did, I bet.

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