The Birds

Unless Hitchcock was Italian, there's nothing Roman about what we saw tonight. Just as the sun started to set, tens of thousands of small birds swarmed in the cloudless sky.
We saw it from the ground and then rushed up to our terrace to get a better look. The birds put on a 20 minute show swarming in multiple clouds of thousands of birds each. Each cluster moving in synchronicity but independent of the other clouds. In the distance they appeared as puffs of smoke blowing in the wind (no relation I'm sure to my previous post). Up close, a hitchcockian (look it up) swarm of birds made me want to hide under the bed.

Click on the pictures to get a bigger image. Just in time for halloween.