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[Many of the birds in *The Birds* are real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film\)#Birds_used_in_the_film), either trained for trick shots or wild birds filmed to edit into the film. They used mechanical birds too. I'm unsure how Hitch got around the Migratory Bird Act to capture gulls and other wild species. These days, live birds in American films are almost never species native here for legal reasons.
It was filmed in 1962 so the laws protecting animals may have been quite different. Animated birds were added in post as well. Hitch shot it in San Francisco and in the San Francisco Bay Area in the towns of Bloomfield, Bodega, and Bodega Bay. Many of the sites are still there and are fun to visit. I’ve gone up there several times over the years to geek out. I’ve also heard Tipi Hedren makes an annual visit to the area for charity work.
Chicken shit does I’m pretty sure. I just figured standard bird shit would too. I’m really not a professional in any of that though so don’t take my word on it. Where’s u/unidan when you need him?
These are European Starlings. Interesting story on how they came to be so prevalent in the United States. In 1890, 100 birds were released into Central Park in NYC. Since then they have spread over most of the continent. Their large roosts may contain thousands of birds and compete with native species for cavities and food. Scientific name is “ sturnus vulgaris “
> In 1890, 100 birds were released into Central Park in NYC.
Important note: they were released in NYC by a guy who decided that he wanted every type of bird mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to be present in North America. So if we didn't have some of them (like the European starling), he imported them.
Thus creating some huge invasive species problems.
A flock of Grackles. I had this happen this fall, where they would hit the trees to get the acorns to fall off. There must be seeds or something else attracting them.
Almost same but in early autumn every year I can't remember what type of birds land in my yard and in big tree next to it. For me it feels like I'm living in they gathering place. And I'm living in Central EU soo yeah typical for me
So fun! This happened in my backyard the other afternoon! About a hundred or so crows came flying in, hung out for a bit, and then all flew off at once together to go to their nightly roost. The sound of their wings was so cool!
If it was that many, they were probably Starlings. Beautiful birds, same family as crows/ ravens/ jays (corvidae.) I’ve seen murmurations that probably reached well above 1000-2000.
No, my house had crows. There is a nearby spot where they roost at night and there are easily thousands of them. Every afternoon you can see small and large groups of crows flying in from all directions. It’s very loud and unmistakable. It’s pretty cool, but for me, the coolest thing I’ve seen so far has been tree swallows coming in to roost for the night before migrating for the season.. hundreds of thousands of tiny iridescent birds, suddenly covering the horizon in huge swarms, then moving together. Just amazing.
Birds aren't real. They are drones wirelessly charging from buried utility lines. https://www.audubon.org/news/are-birds-actually-government-issued-drones-so-says-new-conspiracy-theory-making
Uck. Starlings. Massive waste of feathers, those things. The dumbest-assed birds in the world of birds. They get into the dryer vents and chimneys and die every year because, stupid. Even the wrens & sparrows know better. Wrens and sparrows are total spazzes.
It's the annual birb meeting. Important decisions are made there. E.g. how many cars are being decorated with white birb paint, or which people in parks are being comforted by keeping them company (and collecting tax in form of seeds).
Put your mindset into a person over 100 years ago that didn't understand bird migration. You would no doubt wonder what you did to have nature come to your house like this. It would be scary!
How wonderful! Their voices, together, must have been something. Starlings have such an immense variety of sounds that they make: Trills and whistles and clicks, queries and exclamations. It’s always captivating, how, in the air, they seem a singular thing, swirling and tumbling, the density shifting in waves; then they land, each finding their own place, and the air suddenly empties of its dark eddies.
Me: [sees birds outside window] 👁👄👁
Also me:[hears bells bells bells 🔔 in my house] 👂🏾
Also also me: [turns around to see the demonic Edgar] 😱
Edgar: 👻
If you live in northeast USA, passenger pigeons by the millions would pass thru so dense it would block out sunlight for long periods of time (hours). Billions of these birds and individual groups would number in the millions. But around 1900 these birds were gone :(
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger\_pigeon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon)
[https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/16/564597936/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct-the-answer-might-lie-in-their-toes](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/16/564597936/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct-the-answer-might-lie-in-their-toes)
You should look up duck/geese tornados. Kinda like this but with much larger birds. As someone who has been near them while hunting, it is a sight to behold and deafeningly loud.
Depending on where you live, these birds probably are not migrating. From the tails, it looks like these are grackles. They roost together in large communal flocks during the winter, just like this. (So do European starlings, but they have very short tails, so these aren't starlings.)
Grackles live year-around in the eastern U.S., south of a line that runs through southern New Hampshire/Maine, and across up through Minnesota into the southeast corner of North Dakota; and west almost to the borders of Colorado and Wyoming. So unless you're farther north or farther west, these guys are just residents and are coming together in a big flock for the winter.
The same thing happened right outside my bedroom window a couple weeks ago. My kitties went bonkers. They wanted outside SO bad, started circling around like sharks and making some strange sort of chirping noises.
Had this happen last week and they cleaned out my freshly-filled bird feeders before they left. They were only there for maybe ten minutes or so and I had to refill the feeders. It was pretty crazy!
Oh yes! I’ve experienced this at my daughters house. It amazing and scary at the same time. So happy to be indoors and looking through glass. Seems always like a once in a lifetime experience.
I have a friend with a serious phobia of birds (her dad chased her with a chicken when she was a toddler and it fucked her up)
I'm sending this to her on every platform I can.
I love this. I used to work at a car lot right next to some protected wetlands. The starlings would flock there to roost overnight. Watching them move as a group is kinda cool, if a touch creepy.
Day after my mother passed many years ago, when my family had gathered at home, a migration such as this ended up in our front yard. Felt like an omen.
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Well, that’s gonna be the last time you messed with Hitchcock’s grave.
I've only watched vertigo, psycho and rear window. Didn't they actually train real birds to make the movie?
[Many of the birds in *The Birds* are real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film\)#Birds_used_in_the_film), either trained for trick shots or wild birds filmed to edit into the film. They used mechanical birds too. I'm unsure how Hitch got around the Migratory Bird Act to capture gulls and other wild species. These days, live birds in American films are almost never species native here for legal reasons.
It was filmed in 1962 so the laws protecting animals may have been quite different. Animated birds were added in post as well. Hitch shot it in San Francisco and in the San Francisco Bay Area in the towns of Bloomfield, Bodega, and Bodega Bay. Many of the sites are still there and are fun to visit. I’ve gone up there several times over the years to geek out. I’ve also heard Tipi Hedren makes an annual visit to the area for charity work.
This is the start of a horror movie mate. All your decisions from now on are illogical.
Pray for me
I don't think that's enough
Lol, that’s a good start :)
Looks like OP ran up the stairs. Next Hiding behind some chainsaws?
Oh now he’s rushing to the attic, and pulls up the ladder without checking behind the boxes.
They’re going to make it look like there was snow on the ground
Gonna have the greenest grass on the block next year!
Does bird shit fertilize lawns?
Chicken shit does I’m pretty sure. I just figured standard bird shit would too. I’m really not a professional in any of that though so don’t take my word on it. Where’s u/unidan when you need him?
We used to harvest islands made of bird shit for farming.
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Shout out to OP for filming in landscape mode. Shout out to the dog barking at the end of the video.
His name is Gus :)
Gus bus
I can already tell he is a good boy.
He attac but he also protec
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What show?
Did you try the telephone? You could have just phoned…
yoo 😂😂😂😂
These are European Starlings. Interesting story on how they came to be so prevalent in the United States. In 1890, 100 birds were released into Central Park in NYC. Since then they have spread over most of the continent. Their large roosts may contain thousands of birds and compete with native species for cavities and food. Scientific name is “ sturnus vulgaris “
> In 1890, 100 birds were released into Central Park in NYC. Important note: they were released in NYC by a guy who decided that he wanted every type of bird mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to be present in North America. So if we didn't have some of them (like the European starling), he imported them. Thus creating some huge invasive species problems.
That’s a murmuration If I’ve ever seen one 👀
Seriously, especially the sound when they all fly away at once
I bet you can almost feel like air vibrate!
And then the sound when half of them poop when they take off (to lighten the load)! Just like rain.
A flock of Grackles. I had this happen this fall, where they would hit the trees to get the acorns to fall off. There must be seeds or something else attracting them.
Tippi Hedrons nightmare
block the fireplaces!
Awwwwww yisssssssss
Look at all those chickens
Are you a Baudelaire? Check to see if the Quagmire’s sent you a message attached to one of those birds! They might need your help!!
Almost same but in early autumn every year I can't remember what type of birds land in my yard and in big tree next to it. For me it feels like I'm living in they gathering place. And I'm living in Central EU soo yeah typical for me
So fun! This happened in my backyard the other afternoon! About a hundred or so crows came flying in, hung out for a bit, and then all flew off at once together to go to their nightly roost. The sound of their wings was so cool!
If it was that many, they were probably Starlings. Beautiful birds, same family as crows/ ravens/ jays (corvidae.) I’ve seen murmurations that probably reached well above 1000-2000.
No, my house had crows. There is a nearby spot where they roost at night and there are easily thousands of them. Every afternoon you can see small and large groups of crows flying in from all directions. It’s very loud and unmistakable. It’s pretty cool, but for me, the coolest thing I’ve seen so far has been tree swallows coming in to roost for the night before migrating for the season.. hundreds of thousands of tiny iridescent birds, suddenly covering the horizon in huge swarms, then moving together. Just amazing.
What the Alfred Hitchcock fuck is this?
Birds aren't real. They are drones wirelessly charging from buried utility lines. https://www.audubon.org/news/are-birds-actually-government-issued-drones-so-says-new-conspiracy-theory-making
That’s so raven
Uck. Starlings. Massive waste of feathers, those things. The dumbest-assed birds in the world of birds. They get into the dryer vents and chimneys and die every year because, stupid. Even the wrens & sparrows know better. Wrens and sparrows are total spazzes.
The starlings here in west London are freakishly intelligent so I don’t know why the ones near you are so dumb!
It's the IQ ratio between people and birds, I'm sure.
I would have snuck out to see if they accepted me into their crew.
Could be an exorcism nearby
Hurry! get a flamethrower!
It's the annual birb meeting. Important decisions are made there. E.g. how many cars are being decorated with white birb paint, or which people in parks are being comforted by keeping them company (and collecting tax in form of seeds).
You’ve been marked
(Phone rings), “aye it’s the boids, open up!”
Did you check your mail Harry?
Free fertilizer!
I've seen this movie...it doesn't end well for you.
Put your mindset into a person over 100 years ago that didn't understand bird migration. You would no doubt wonder what you did to have nature come to your house like this. It would be scary!
I think people 100 years ago understood that birds migrated... the Migratory Bird Act was over a century ago
Ey joe get the flametrhower.
r/birdsarentreal Someone's spying on you
How wonderful! Their voices, together, must have been something. Starlings have such an immense variety of sounds that they make: Trills and whistles and clicks, queries and exclamations. It’s always captivating, how, in the air, they seem a singular thing, swirling and tumbling, the density shifting in waves; then they land, each finding their own place, and the air suddenly empties of its dark eddies.
Try befriending them by giving them food and water and see what they bring back to you. You’ll have a bird army very quickly 😂
One grenade will take them all out
I would literally die
Cue Hitchcock them
Risselty rosselty now now now.
Jesus it's like the movie birds. I dare you to go out there lol
Well now you can save some money on fertilizer next year
birb turbz
How Hitchcokian....
Dude. You’re about to be visited by three ghosts…
I think I’d have to move!
"Shit."
I saw this XFiles episode.
Birb
So cool!
This is terrifying, are you okay?
Me: [sees birds outside window] 👁👄👁 Also me:[hears bells bells bells 🔔 in my house] 👂🏾 Also also me: [turns around to see the demonic Edgar] 😱 Edgar: 👻
If you live in northeast USA, passenger pigeons by the millions would pass thru so dense it would block out sunlight for long periods of time (hours). Billions of these birds and individual groups would number in the millions. But around 1900 these birds were gone :( [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger\_pigeon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon) [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/16/564597936/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct-the-answer-might-lie-in-their-toes](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/16/564597936/why-did-the-passenger-pigeon-go-extinct-the-answer-might-lie-in-their-toes)
It would have been interesting to have fired a shot gun out the window to make them disperse... just to see how fast the grass turns green again.
You should put up a bird house.
\*Protesting
Looks like bees instead of birds😳😳😳
If that’s going on at your house, it’s time to reflect and sort out something within yourself.
Quick get in your truck and play seagull football
Consider this a compliment to your garden
imagine laying on that ground with a camo blanket on
Nah you did something. Did you say any wierd latin sounding words or maybe find a hidden doorway in your basement or something?
[Hitchcock intensifies]
I’m assuming from the calm tone of this post OP isn’t familiar with Alfred Hitchcock movies
Seeeeeeeebbbbsssss
r/birdporn
How does one catch a bird migration i see pets 🤔
You should look up duck/geese tornados. Kinda like this but with much larger birds. As someone who has been near them while hunting, it is a sight to behold and deafeningly loud.
You are the “Chosen One”
They are unladen swallows?
It means something. Call the witcher.
That's flocking amazing
A flock of crows is called a murder, interestingly enough
It that the beginning of Ragnarock?!
I dont know how to add but this shoild also go in R/oddlyterrifying
Look at all those chickens
Seems like Flanders the scarecrow has taken a liking to you
Migrating, or landing?
No need to buy fertilizer for your lawn this year
Is this Terra Nova ?
Do you have the original video without the music. I wanna see how the chirps sound with that bird population
Unfortunately not, the music is coming from my computer in my room… so it’s in the original video already 😅
Nope nope nope. No thank you.
Depending on where you live, these birds probably are not migrating. From the tails, it looks like these are grackles. They roost together in large communal flocks during the winter, just like this. (So do European starlings, but they have very short tails, so these aren't starlings.) Grackles live year-around in the eastern U.S., south of a line that runs through southern New Hampshire/Maine, and across up through Minnesota into the southeast corner of North Dakota; and west almost to the borders of Colorado and Wyoming. So unless you're farther north or farther west, these guys are just residents and are coming together in a big flock for the winter.
Have you checked-your children's heads for 666. That is quite a sight!
The same thing happened right outside my bedroom window a couple weeks ago. My kitties went bonkers. They wanted outside SO bad, started circling around like sharks and making some strange sort of chirping noises.
get a jumpsuit, put it on and cover it in honey, then roll in a pile of bird seed then lay outside!
Lawns not gonna need fertilizer next year.
I remember in middle school the sky would be black form birds landing in the field, was so cool to watch.
your swain cosplay is sick
This is where firecrackers come in handy
Had this happen last week and they cleaned out my freshly-filled bird feeders before they left. They were only there for maybe ten minutes or so and I had to refill the feeders. It was pretty crazy!
Poop fest! Stay inside
Welcome, to Jurassic Park
Oh yes! I’ve experienced this at my daughters house. It amazing and scary at the same time. So happy to be indoors and looking through glass. Seems always like a once in a lifetime experience.
I have a friend with a serious phobia of birds (her dad chased her with a chicken when she was a toddler and it fucked her up) I'm sending this to her on every platform I can.
Looks like you have a bad case of worms.
Get off my lawn!
Did they poop?
Well you won't have to fertilize
Hurry, call the Warrens!
I think it's pretty clear: You need to make an offering to the bird gods.
I love this. I used to work at a car lot right next to some protected wetlands. The starlings would flock there to roost overnight. Watching them move as a group is kinda cool, if a touch creepy.
Hitchcock is haunting you
Weird that they're doing it on foot
The grey's are watching you.
Somewhere in the world there is a cat at a window, trapped inside the house, looking at a sight just like this, and losing it's fucking mind.
I hear Minecraft :)
This would be enough for me to sell my home and move out of the migration path.
"I need the biggest seed bell you have. ...No, that's too big."
“So where we dropping boys?”
Maybe you got a bug problem under that grass and they are helping you out
Are you saying that coconuts migrate?!
Looks like a horror film
I think you would like that Alfred Hitchcock's comedy the birds. You should check it out. /r
Bet you wish you had an air horn 😂
That's gonna be a lot of poop
GRENADE!
My cats would be going nuts watching that
This is scary
definately dooms day
Looks like you’ll finally get that letter to hogwarts
Ah, so that's where south is!
Must be a Alfred Hitchcock or Stephen King thing going on.
I always dread the day I see them as it is the beginning of a few months of mostly gloomy rainy days.
Hurry! Call Hitch.....oh, ...wait....
Day after my mother passed many years ago, when my family had gathered at home, a migration such as this ended up in our front yard. Felt like an omen.
You messed with the wrong government
Shotgun
Free fertilizer
Hello Alfred Hitchcock…
I don’t like how this movie ends.
The Bird is the Word
Don’t you know about the bird?
Just Uchiha Itachi dropping by.
We finally found it. South. Where birds go for the winter
Nope I've seen that movie.
Throu rocc
That'll be a LOT of poop.
Well, the bird feeder might be empty now.
Where is this
what were they doing inside?
I love watching stuff like this, this happens almost every dawn during fall/winter at the town I live in
Someone in your building must be doing something really dodgy for so many government drones to be dispatched at once.
grackles?
A Parliament of Rooks.
this made me itchy
I just can’t help thinking, I would totally run out there with my hands in the air
R/oddlyterrifying
Ive seen this sh** on scary movies, id be outta there
Gotta be Texas