Paging Mr. Hitchcock...
Nov. 3rd, 2006 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI've been writing documentation fairly steadily since 8 AM. A few minutes ago, I left my cube to stare north out the windows to the horizon for a while to let my eyes relax. A distance away, I saw what I beleived to be faint smoke blowing west to east with the wind. After a moment, I realized it was actually a dense jetstream of flocking birds, something the size of a large sparrow.
Looking as far as I could to the east and west, I could see neither the start nor end of this flow: they simply faded off into the distance in each direction. I began picking out individuals in the stream and it was clear they were moving at a very quick pace. A full 2.5 minutes later, the end of the flock finally flew past.
That's a whopping huge number of birds.
Looking as far as I could to the east and west, I could see neither the start nor end of this flow: they simply faded off into the distance in each direction. I began picking out individuals in the stream and it was clear they were moving at a very quick pace. A full 2.5 minutes later, the end of the flock finally flew past.
That's a whopping huge number of birds.
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Date: 2006-11-04 03:36 am (UTC)(and apparently all dem starlings are descended from 120 birds imported by someone to NYC's Central park in the late 19th century who wanted samples of all birds mentioned in Shakespeare. There are now estimated to be 200 million starlings descended from the initial 120. Sigh.)