JustPlainBill
Active Member
I was holding an outdoor table for my wife and kids at a CS stand at AK last summer. I noticed a women coming towards me carrying a tray loaded with food. I thought all the food she was carrying couldn't have been for her alone and I wondered where the rest of her party was, not having much to think about at the time, holding tables is a very boring affair. She found an empty table, that another family had just vacated very close to the table I was sitting at. She hurried her step balancing this large tray of food, (she was a small woman, about 60ish) trying not to spill the several large beverages on the tray. She plunked the tray on the table, looking very proud of herself, I guess because she was able to manage the task alone, I was amazed myself. She turned and walked away out of sight, which I didn't expect her to do. I looked after her puzzled, and thought, why would you leave a tray of food like that all by itself? I also thought couldn't anyone just walk by and take her fries, since no one was watching besides myself.
I no sooner thought the thought when a huge blackbird, biggest I've ever seen, as big as a hawk, swooped down from the tree above and stood on the table with the defenseless tray of food and stuck its large beak in the container of fries. As I witnessed this, quite suprised into silence with my mouth open in awe, I heard the women returning to her table throwing the napkins that she was holding into the air screaming to beat the band, waving her arms about, "GET AWAY! GET AWAY!" As she got nearer, the bird took to flight with a large beakful of fries. It looked to me to be half the container. The woman looked at me, since I was the closest person to her, if I could read her mind she was thinking ! I returned her look and shrugged my shoulders thinking, what did you expect, this is the AK after all. That bird was big enough to be in an exhibit!
I no sooner thought the thought when a huge blackbird, biggest I've ever seen, as big as a hawk, swooped down from the tree above and stood on the table with the defenseless tray of food and stuck its large beak in the container of fries. As I witnessed this, quite suprised into silence with my mouth open in awe, I heard the women returning to her table throwing the napkins that she was holding into the air screaming to beat the band, waving her arms about, "GET AWAY! GET AWAY!" As she got nearer, the bird took to flight with a large beakful of fries. It looked to me to be half the container. The woman looked at me, since I was the closest person to her, if I could read her mind she was thinking ! I returned her look and shrugged my shoulders thinking, what did you expect, this is the AK after all. That bird was big enough to be in an exhibit!