I’ve seen this myself. Very strange and entertaining.
Does anyone know what this is? I know, but I’m not telling … until someone guesses correctly.
Update: Thirdtwin wins. Starlings.
I’ve seen this myself. Very strange and entertaining.
Does anyone know what this is? I know, but I’m not telling … until someone guesses correctly.
Update: Thirdtwin wins. Starlings.
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Swallows. Have no idea what they are accomplishing.
It’s not a guess, so I’m not saying. But it is amazing to see in the real world.
Starlings?
I’ve seen this before. It happens every time Michelle Obama takes a shit and then opens the bathroom window.
Murmuration.
Bats?
That is some SERIOUS swarming…
Birds flocking.
a murmuring of starlings
Looks like that mysterious black smoke monster from LOST
Used to see that often as a teenager in the 70’s. Don’t think it was birds though because it happen at a couple indoor concerts. Good Times!
Happened! (flashback?)
@Diff Tim
C’mon, you were trippin…admit it.
Locusts?
It’s a giant flock of Starlings. God likes nature shows as much or better than any of us do, it shows the beauty and majesty of some of his creation.
Starlings, performing murmurations.
Common where I live but still mesmerizing.
Analysis
https://youtu.be/4LWmRuB-uNU
Happens here on the shores of Lake Erie in the summer. Those are what we call midges or muffleheads. They only live for days, and fly in those swarms to mate.
http://www.ohionatureblog.com/2009/06/muffleheads-midges-or-chironomids-your.html?m=1
horde of locusts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrkrr6gTQJk
One thing I learned during the Dempanic is that european starlings are excellent mimics and are easily trained in captivity to mimic human speech.
Imagine that. All these years I thought they were just targets.
Peyote.
Utah Monolith.
That’s all I’m gonna say.
I see them sometimes while I am goose hunting right at dawn.
@lurker – Sept 2019, on the south shore of Erie, we experienced a hatch of “Canadian soldiers.” It was gross and fascinating at the same time.
Starlings…..
Not that different from seeing a school of fish in the ocean react to a predator.
The Dept. Of Agriculture spent decades and millions of dollars to eradicate native blackbird populations. The starlings quickly filled the void and they are far more damaging, prolific and difficult to get rid of.
Paul Coffey saving Mr. Jingles….
I saw that one time after eating a weird looking mushroom.
Chinese drones delivered from a cargo ship.
(You didn’t know that they can deliver thousands of drones from containers when their ship docks?)
Murmuration.
I get to see one every day i manage to drag myself to work.
They are pigeons however,on a good day maybe 200 hundred either sitting on the power lines,flying in formation or ganged in the parking lot for people to feed them.
It’s fascinating to watch them.
What’s equally amazing to me is how they don’t knock each other out of the sky while doing this.
We have a four-lane road near here with large fields on either side. Starlings will swarm in a field on one side, then fly to the other side at a height of about three feet over the road. When a car comes by, they arc over it like smoke in a wind tunnel.
A Stacy Abrams fart over Savanna, GA.
:35 THEY GAVE US THE FINGER, AND I DON’T BLAME THEM..
Eric Swalwells fart?
Paging Alfred Hitchcock, Paging Alfred Hitchcock!
Swalwells fart condensed and and solidified and there was Tracy Abrams
Watched about 1/10th of a second abs said it’s a flock of starlings. I will go back and see if I am correct now.
Bingo.
Quilia. Africa. My guess Kenya maybe Tanzania.
They must have just left a Grateful Dead concert
I’ve seen something very similar, very early in the morning as they were all flying out of the marshlands alongside I-95 near Portsmouth, NH. It was quite impressive to see. Must have been THOUSANDS of them!
I cannot believe no one guessed a cloud of Covid-1984.
I see this a lot
mosquitoes
Starlings!
More Biden ballots lost in the wind?
Saw something similar to this the other day in town – except they were Brewer’s Blackbirds. They were all in a tree, then they took off swirling and swirling in the area. People were complaining about all the poop on their cars – they were sitting under the tree they were perched in.
crowbain from dunland.
European Starlings