Posted on 12/23/2009 9:35:09 AM PST by Tom Hawks
This is a video of a half a million birds swarming over Sacramento California. I just want to know who estimated that there is a half a million. Are they sure there are not a million, or maybe only 100,000 instead? Well either way it is pretty cool, and reminds me of the movie by Alfred Hitchcock, "The Birds".
Check out the video of the Birds over Sacrament here
These following two paragraphs are from an article at "The Independent", and it is about the phenomenon called a murmuration;
Winter must must be coming... because the starlings are flocking. Here are many thousands of the birds wheeling together in the afternoon sky near Gretna Green yesterday, as they prepare to roost together for the night.
A starling flock like this is called a murmuration, a word that perfectly describes the rustle of thousands of pairs of wings. Starling murmurations are one of the most dazzling displays in the natural world, as the flock changes shape, one minute like a colossal wisp of smoke, the next a tornado, the next a thundercloud blocking the light.
The huge gatherings, biggest in winter, are boosted by thousands of birds that come to Britain's milder Atlantic climate to escape the harsh cold of the European continent, especially in Scandinavia. There are several reasons to get together in the way they do – safety in numbers, information exchange (if some come back from a good feeding area others may learn of it) and warmth at night through roosting together. The birds may feed up to 20 miles from their winter roost but return each evening.
Cool vid. I was hoping it was the finger of providence come to smite the capitol.
Word of advice - Don’t look up.
I’ve seen similar swarms but nothing on that scale.
Now that would be a lot of bird guano to clean up over the city of “Sacrament” (sic).
The MSM are the official counters. That's why the Million Man March ended up with such a high count and the Tea Party March on Washington got a low count.
If all these birds poop on Liberal cars and homes (and on the Liberals themselves - but how would you tell?) then the count will be inflated, and stimulus "Obama money" will be applied to the "shovel ready job".
Shoot them.
Glad to have found this thread.
Mesmerizing.
Do you guys still get the big starling swarms?
When I lived on 5th Avenue at Fort Knox as a kid in the mid-70s, big swarms were common. They would roost in all the trees up and down the street, which wasn’t a good thing. There were various schemes tried to reduce their numbers, none of which were very successful, as I remember.
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