The flashing of black and white these Sandpipers display is caused by their black backs and white chests. Coupled with the colour of the sky it looks like they keep disappearing. pic.twitter.com/TNw4faFFwn
— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) November 17, 2019
November 18, 2019
Seen and unseen.
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It is caused by the hawk that shows up at the end from the top right.
Who you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?
A Tornado!!! A White Tornado!!!
weird wild stuff.
Murmuration
They not only appear to disappear, they literally disappear.
Beautiful! I've seen this with swallows, too.
We have a lot of these over the lake. I get mesmerized watching them. So beautiful.
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.
Creation is a wonder to behold, and always full of surprises.
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
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.
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.
Hey, wholelottaspainin', don't stop there. Did you get lucky?
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