Bird Surfing
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If you’ve been following my blogs you’ll know my feelings on Induction cooktops. I love mine. Anyways, I was at a family brunch get together the other day and the oven had a Ceran top. They had cooked pancakes in a fry pan for a half hour or so. I walked past it an hour later and the heat was still radiating off of the burners….and it’s only a 32 plus day outside. No air conditioning inside. One more reason to re-think your next stove -top purchase.
Onto my topic for this week: surfing birds.
Have you seen them? Watched them? If you haven’t then it’s time to look up and see what’s going on up above you. About two years ago I was sitting outside with my son when all of a sudden we had a “murder” of crows start gathering on the top of the tallest pine trees in our yard. And, in case you didn’t know, a group of crows is called a murder, not a flock of crows. OMG. So this murder of crows start flying and then they catch the air currents and away they go. Not many birds play like this but crows and seagulls do for sure. The air currents have to be right and when they are these amazing birds catch the wind and away they go surfing, they just glide in the wind so very effortlessly. They will come into the current and then they just glide. They are so fun to watch. That’s when you wish you had a high-end video camera to catch them playing.
I love floating around in my pool and looking up at the sky. Depending on the day and the direction of the wind these birds can put on quite a show. One day in June the seagulls decided to do a musical synchronization way up in the sky. Seagulls often fly way up high. They look like diamonds glittering in the sunshine on a clear blue sky day. There was a flock of about 30 way up there and they appeared to be dancing to the music on my speaker. It was so cool.
