This morning on our way out to work and daycare a peculiar sight stopped us in our tracks. Out on the lawn were hundreds of blackbirds and over twenty robins. It was quite a sight to behold. They were making a racket and I had several thoughts about Alfred Hitchcock while we stood in the driveway admiring this awesome sight.
"Kock, Kock!" Billy pointed, meaning "quack, quack".
He knew enough to compare his toy ducks to other birds and to know what noise a duck makes, and therefore, these birds.
"No. Those are Robin Redbreasts. They say chirp, chirp."
"RaRa... chi chi?" He asked.
"Yes, that's right." Well, pretty close anyway.
"Ooh. Duck. Kock, kock!"
And we're back to the ducks.
He found them so interesting that he ran at the lot of them on the lawn, causing hundreds of birds to take to the air and landing in the trees, sending up a cacophony of alarm. He just stood there and pointed up at the trees.
I don't know what inspired all of those birds to be out on the lawn this morning. All I know is that they inspired my son to "chi, chi" the whole way to daycare.
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