Pol
October 8th, 2004, 01:09 PM
When I was in the UK a couple of years back, my cousin and I were tromping up to a Celtic hill fort in Scotland (the same hill fort where I took the photographs of the spirits/faeries/whatevers they were).
There was a grove of trees at the foot of the hill (if I can find the CDs, I'll post some pictures), and on our way up it was all alive with what appeared to be crows (or something of the sort). The noise was really loud, you could hear it from quite a distance away (they were messing around, causing general noise, and making a lot of vocal racket as well). They continued this as we passed by the grove
Well, we got to the top of the hill and sat around/walked around a bit. The birds would fly out of the grove, swoop around, and return to it.
The whole time they were in flight each time, they were making a lot of noise.
On our way back down, we noticed it was really quiet.
As I love groves of trees, I was looking at the grove quite a bit as we were walking.
As we started to pass by it, we noticed it was empty. No birds in the sky, no birds in the grove, no birds on the ground. No sound coming from the nearby forest.
Now, these birds made a lot of noise no matter where they were or what they were doing the whole time we were out there.
The flock was so large, it would have been difficult to miss it flying over the road to the forest beyond, especially considering we were somewhat elevated above it most of the trip down the hill, and otherwise were close to the grove when at the foot.
Anyway, I never gave a lot of thought to it until recently.
It's only been with my delving into faerie (kekeke..preeetty spelling) lore and other mythologies that I've given it more thought.
Any thoughts?
There was a grove of trees at the foot of the hill (if I can find the CDs, I'll post some pictures), and on our way up it was all alive with what appeared to be crows (or something of the sort). The noise was really loud, you could hear it from quite a distance away (they were messing around, causing general noise, and making a lot of vocal racket as well). They continued this as we passed by the grove
Well, we got to the top of the hill and sat around/walked around a bit. The birds would fly out of the grove, swoop around, and return to it.
The whole time they were in flight each time, they were making a lot of noise.
On our way back down, we noticed it was really quiet.
As I love groves of trees, I was looking at the grove quite a bit as we were walking.
As we started to pass by it, we noticed it was empty. No birds in the sky, no birds in the grove, no birds on the ground. No sound coming from the nearby forest.
Now, these birds made a lot of noise no matter where they were or what they were doing the whole time we were out there.
The flock was so large, it would have been difficult to miss it flying over the road to the forest beyond, especially considering we were somewhat elevated above it most of the trip down the hill, and otherwise were close to the grove when at the foot.
Anyway, I never gave a lot of thought to it until recently.
It's only been with my delving into faerie (kekeke..preeetty spelling) lore and other mythologies that I've given it more thought.
Any thoughts?