Mountain Blue Birds

I used to walk with my dog up in a little valley that is between the freeway and the city. This is a beautiful little area of wild (except that people sometimes dump their garbage up there). One time I noticed the hillside was covered with specks of brilliant blue which would all lift up into the air and then settle in another location. They were birds, Mountain Bluebirds to be precise. One of them came up very close to me and sat on a branch of sage, I suppose to see if I was any threat to them. It was such a beautiful hue of blue as to be indescribable. These birds were the blue of the Idaho sky after it has been washed with a hard rain. I had never before seen them there, and I have not seen them since.