Birds and the bus man

I did not have time to dig my camera out of my purse and out of  its case and turn it on and set the settings and take a photo  - darn!  (I do look forward to being able to see something and record an image with my eyes) – so I must rely on words alone to tell you what I saw earlier today.

A city bus had just left the stop on a quiet street by the ocean and I was standing beside the road about to get into my car so I waited until it would pass.  I then noticed a large number of crows and about five or six seagulls following the bus and swirling  gradually to the ground behind it.   The black and white mixture of birds in flight was mesmerizing  and there was the sense of them being blown in a funnel by the wind.

As the bus passed  I saw that the driver had his arm out the window and was dropping a handful of something which the birds were scooping up.  Looked like pellets of  some sort,  maybe corn. Not a morsel remained on the ground long enough for me to make a positive identification.

The bus turned the corner at the top of the hill and the last of the birds seemed to press flat against the sky before flying away.

Maybe I had better include video as an option in my image recording wish list.