November 18, 2019

Seen and unseen.

14 comments:

Paul Mac said...

It is caused by the hawk that shows up at the end from the top right.

BarrySanders20 said...

Who you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?

Wince said...

A Tornado!!! A White Tornado!!!

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

weird wild stuff.

Michael said...

Murmuration

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

They not only appear to disappear, they literally disappear.

mockturtle said...

Beautiful! I've seen this with swallows, too.

Anne in Rockwall, TX said...

We have a lot of these over the lake. I get mesmerized watching them. So beautiful.

Maillard Reactionary said...

Very cool. Starlings swarm like that around here, but they're all black.

Also mesmerizing, impossible not to watch.

Our swallows all seem to be freelancers, although often a gang of them will perch in the same area. Maybe it's a union rule that they all have to take their breaks at the same time.

Charlie Eklund said...

Creation is a wonder to behold, and always full of surprises.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

An augur was a priest and official in the classical Roman world. His main role was the practice of augury: Interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds – whether they were flying in groups or alone, what noises they made as they flew, direction of flight, and what kind of birds they were.

She's a jogger
she's a blogger
a twilight auger
just out waitin' for the Sun

Michael said...

I wrote "murmuration" but believe the word is associated only with starlings. There does not seem to be a word for the similar crowds of other which move in the same near orchestration.

effinayright said...

Back when I was courting my wife, we sat on a beach in Nantucket watching flocks of sandpipers fly by.

I told her, "They say if you're lucky you can hear a "woosh" or a "whomp" when they all turn suddenly in unison.

A minute later a whole bunch flew past, doing exactly that.

Whomp.

mikee said...

Hey, wholelottaspainin', don't stop there. Did you get lucky?