Fake mob

The wild birds around here are very good at flying away when the slightest threat occurs. Threats like someone is about to take their picture. In the photo above I have taken the liberty of using copious fakery to show how the birds actually look before I threaten them with a camera. (When you have a copy of Adobe Photoshop, you might as well use it to the fullest.)*

The main body of birds is juncos (I’m not positive they’re juncos; I know as much about birds as the average US Member of Congress knows about reality). These birds are picking through the detritus under the feeder, which falls out when their brethren mob it by the dozens. The amount of seed these guys eat every day is astonishing. They certainly don’t “eat like a bird.”

*The actual picture has only five birds in it.