The Paper Crane

The other day I was rid­ing to the stu­dio with David East on Grand Avenue right by Smith Park. On this par­tic­u­lar day I decided not to wear my hel­met for a change, it was hot and I wanted to feel the wind through my super short hair. Rid­ing along peace­fully, thoughts mean­der­ing, sud­denly some­thing is grab­bing and peck­ing at my head! I scream!! Duck my head down–is all I can do, I have no idea what is hap­pen­ing! David turns around to see a bird attack­ing my head. I pull up to him and star­tled beyond belief, start to cry (that morn­ing i found out I may not have a job, talk about a bad day!) A man from across the street jogs over to us and says “I saw the whole thing! Not even 15 min­utes ago that same bird attacked a lit­tle boy and knocked him right off of his bike!” David said it was most likely a red winged black bird, a ter­ri­to­r­ial bird that is known to attack humans that come any­where near them or their nests. Read more on this vis­cious bird that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds here

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