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Kamikaze Chicken

Posted on | September 1, 2009 | No Comments

I live on the edge … of town, that is.  And with fall in the air, there’s nothing better than relaxing outside in the early evening as the day’s heat seeps away. 

We’re fortunate in that our backyard overlooks neighbouring fields … complete with grazing cattle, wetlands, and the occasional horse and rider.

And kamikaze prairie chickens.

Now … don’t get me wrong, I enjoy taking in the wildlife … from a distance.  But tonight, we had some crazy chickens take matters into their own hands.  

Imagine, if you will, the subtle pleasure of a summer evening … a slight breeze blowing, crickets chirping, and the sound of migrating birds … coming … closer … and closer … until … BAM!  SMACK!  THUNK! 

The prairie chickens have landed.  

prairie chickenIt was a flock – not just one stray bird - of rogue prairie chickens who had misjudged the distance to their watering hole and proceeded to fly directly into a window, a car, and the side of our neighbour’s split level home.  Stop laughing.  I’m serious.

We were almost as stunned as the animals.  Stupefied – and still slightly twitching - most of the birds shook it off and proceeded to fly (albeit haphazardly) to the field behind our crescent.  One disappeared into our neighbour’s yard.  And here we thought the noise was from our 12-year old neighbourhood Sidney Crosby wannabe.

No damage was done to property.  But to the birds?  It ain’t no thing, but a chicken wing.

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