Friday, November 27, 2009

Aerial Ballet (Organic Information Processing)

(Just so all y'all don't think I am unremittingly gloomy!)

DOTOF™ to Joanne Cannata-Kelly (FB) for the vid...

Whatever else they may be doing, they're exchanging information about local conditions they've explored during the daylight hours.

You're a bird. Y ou don't have a lot of reserves. You cooperate...


25 or so years ago (and still today, for all I know), you could have witnessed the same phenomenon nightly as the flocks of starlings reassembled and regrouped from their day's foraging, and got ready to roost in the timbers of the docks in the harbor of Bellingham, WA. There was a tavern nearby, with a view of the scene, where the members of the Western Washington Space Patrol (WWSP) would fore-gather for the view and our evening's refreshment...

Signed:

Cdr. Woody, Sector Prefect, WWSP

2 comments:

One Fly said...
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One Fly said...

A few years ago in Europe there was a major proplem with these birds where people went around with umbrellas it was so gross.

It may be spectacular but this is one of the nastiest birds around and may be one of the hardest to stalk if one has ill intent on his mind which I do.