Birds were attacking a corpse.
Or at least what appeared to be a corpse… It just turned out to be some massive loaves of bread on the side of the road; guess they had fallen off a truck (not in the “hot-property, seemingly stolen” sense, but actually fell off a delivery vehicle.)
I should go back to that stretch of I-95 to see what OTHER goods had been left behind by loose latches and faulty hatches; maybe it’s like the Philly version of the Bermuda Triangle, where things just end up “lost”. Perhaps I’ll find what I’VE been looking for…