Last night, over an hour, saw 7 separate flocks of birds (I'm not ornithologist) all flying roughly south, in a "V" formation ...
Do they know something we don't ?
Last night, over an hour, saw 7 separate flocks of birds (I'm not ornithologist) all flying roughly south, in a "V" formation ...
Do they know something we don't ?
Only that it's autumn, I tend to hear several formations of geese honking their way over per night, in fact they started several weeks ago.
Geese fly in the morning Wind farm warning
yeah the Canada's are heading off somewhere.
Or heading in from Scandinavia.
Here in west central Scotland migration has finished! Geese a few weeks ago. Swans mid/early August. They fly quite low (over me anyway), and make a strange creaking noise. I imagine it's the flexing of their feathers. They really do have a large wingspan, and neck is fully extended in flight. Magnificent to watch.
It is that. Trees starting to turn. Lit the wood burner last night to augment heating, just lit it for this evening as well.
In an office we used to rent a few years ago, we were right under their flightpath (a largish meadow/floodplain nearby as a landmark perhaps?)
If we were working late, I'd say "There's some more geese going over, can't you hear them?" but my colleagues never seemed to, they thought I was hearing things ...
They would be geese.
They fly in the wingtip vortex of the bird in front so saving energy.
Yes, they know how to fly without building an aeroplane and paying for a pilot:-)
On Wednesday 18 September 2013 18:36 harryagain wrote in uk.d-i-y:
So how do they decide which bastard gets to go in front?
They take turns.
They take turns. As the lead bird tires, it drops back into the echelon
Tim Watts scribbled...
It's the one with a yellow jersey.
echelon you say?
kill the president
Not necessarily,
Because most large birds do this - even down to the size of seagulls.
Andy
It's the useful idiot in the flock.
Bill
It's the one that knows the way.
Which birds exactly? It would only be "flocking" and migratory birds.
The only others I have seen is pelicans, (which also use "ground effect" and wave generated lift.) Ocassionally dynamic effects.
Ducks geese swans seagulls cranes storks....
Strangely solitary birds don't. Must be something to do with being on their own. So yes,they are all flocking species.
Andy
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