Last week it was my luck and great pleasure to stand by the side of a
country road in deepening dusk, and watch perhaps 200 birds wheel and
gyre for 3 1/2 minutes. They formed a wildly malleable globe, elongating
on any axis at random, while moving on another axis. There was no
single leader.
David L Babcock ol...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
Real direction change seemed to be more of a mass decision, with all
turning nearly together, and the lack of perfect sync causing the shape
changes. I saw birds inside the globe sometimes going in quite a different
direction, with no effect on
In this movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675192/
Curtis saw the bird swarms as a prelude to doom.
Some fantastic swarms on the web.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJjeHLcbQJ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6nvvFkbRkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE
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