I was sitting in my chair last evening watching the news with my headset on to block out the noise my parrots make in the evening. Through the melodic sound of the newscasters’ voices, I kept hearing a rhythmic banging. I kept shaking my head thinking there was a problem with the headset. Then I started fiddling with the tuning button on the side of the earpiece thinking I was picking up some construction noise. When nothing stopped it, I took the headsets off and got up to see where the noise might be coming from if it wasn’t from inside the headphones. I pulled the blinds back on my all glass porch door and there at the bottom of the door were not one, not two, not three, but four Stellar Jays rapping on the glass with their beaks. I’d apparently forgotten to put out their evening snack and they were quite annoyed. When I opened the door to put some peanuts out, they didn’t even bother to fly away but hopped right up to the table where I put the peanuts and were already grabbing them as I put them out.
Someday I fear my home will be the site of a real life Hitchcock scene from The Birds.