Magpies

I was walking the other day and came accross some Magpies at two different stages of my walk. First Magpie was one that was walking around grazing. Grazing? is that the right word? Do Magpies graze? Well he was walking around the grass in search of food I do believe.
Anyway the reason I bring it up is because I wanted to share a thought with you. Now I know the only real basis for this thought is from fictional Television shows and a movie, but still there are experts who work on this type of stuff. The shows in question are infact the documentary "Walking with Dinosaurs" and "Jurassic Park". You see my question and thought is this; do you think that Magpies sometimes walk like a T-Rex? Well I somethimes do.
It kinda freaks me out a bit. I know this is a weired fear but you see I have a fear of Dinosaurs. I know they have been dead for like thousands of years but still. Maybe its just the thought of Dinosaurs that scares me. Either way if they do ever make a real Jurassic Park, you couldn't pay me enough to go visit it.

Second thing about Magpies. Whats their deal? I mean are they the mst visious of birds you will ever meet or what? Have you ever been swooped by a Magpie? Its scary stuff. And they dont just do it to scare you either. They're set on shoot to kill. I have a Magpie swoop me once, and then when he reaised he didn't connect, came round again for a second approach. And they make that noise. Its scary stuff.
But anyway, I was walking back home and there were about 7 Magpies having a go at each other, swoopong at each other in the air and making that noise. And I thought, whats going on here? Have I just wittnesed some sort of Magpie gang war? I dont know but I found it to be strange and scary at the same time, cause I was affraid they would all come to the conclusion that I was a threat of some kind and all gang up on me, which thankfully didnt happen.

Apocalypse Now?

Ok, so this would have been cooler had I written this the day after these thoughts but I was busy and well forgot to jot it down.
Whats the deal with the title? you may ask. Well last Wednesday afternoon there was this crazy dust storm. I have seen cars still covered with the dust that stormed its way through our city. My car however is clean, I washed it on Friday.

Anyway back to the title. I worked that afternoon and had to bring in the trolleys. So there I wandered through the carpark collecting trolleys getting dust occasionally blown in my face, and im pretty sure I also had large amounts of it in my hair. The sky was this crazy stormy weather brown, If you have ever seen such a sky, u know what im talking about.
But the reason the title is the way it is is because of the snapshot image I wish I could have taken. As I walked to the far end of the carpark where there were a number of free parking spaces I began to think this strange thought. So I want to explain it so you can picture it as well. The Sky was the dusty brown, with the trees violently blowing around, and if it had not been for the one car that drove past it would have looked as if the planet was dying, that I was alone, far from civilization if there was any left, and that it was, as they say, the apocalypse.

I know its a crazy thought, but sometimes I think of strange things.

I also remember thinking, man I wish I could film this cause that would be cool.