Crack in the sky, probably kids throwing stones at it.
Autoglass can repair with resin instead of replacing the whole skyline which can be expensive.
Yes and it lloks like European swallows.
Look at all those chickens
Nah. They’re all pissed. It’s a bird conga.
They are geese. Most likely pink-footed geese.
They migrate from Greenland and Iceland in the autumn and spend the winter here. They spend the night at estuaries and the coast, and move inland during the day to graze on fields.
They spend time on the Scottish coast, Lancashire coast (Morecambe bay mostly) and Norfolk, and move between these areas frequently.
This means over the winter it is fairly common to see long “skeins” of hundreds of them as they move to and from feeding grounds, or across the country to different roost sites.
They make high-pitched squeaky honk calls, and are quite distinctive once you recognise them.
In the autumn when they migrate from Iceland and Greenland it is common for them to fly overnight, so it’s not unusual to hear them squeak-honking overhead at night too.
Interesting fact: They fly in a V shape but one side is often longer than the other. That’s because there are more birds on that side.
I thought for a second my eye boogers had returned
Are the birds migrating not is
Might not be actually migrating. They practice a bit first.
Actually had two geese land in my street last winter which was weird considering there’s fields close by.
Then it started snowing so I wonder if geese are grounded by bad weather too ?
I work in Middlesborough and I’ve seen similar for the last 3 weeks when I pop out at lunchtime. They are heading south paralelle to the coast…SO i assumed it was some sort of migration.
They are seriosuly high up though, much higher than when you usualy see a load of birds – Is the collective noun a flock?
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Birds aren’t real
You should take a trip to north Norfolk.
You will see thousands of geese coming in to Winter there.
It might be Starlink as seen by day.
Was anyone else’s first reaction “what’s that hair on my screen?”
A sky-writer running out of ink? Perhaps it needs to switch to colour…
Chicken Licken is finally right!!!
It’s an arrow pointing to the treasure, follow it
Hair on the lens
Geese, we see them every year in November and early December.
Either that or planning a route map
Geese.
Depends. If they’re African swallows, then probably not
Saw them fly above my house a few nights ago, weird geese.
The amount of sheep in the comments is scary, wake up people
So genuine question because I don’t want to come across as bitchy, but are geese migrations not a common sight across the whole of the UK? Spent all my life on the east coast of Scotland and am used to seeing/hearing several of these a day this time of year, and then again in the spring when they come back. Didn’t occur to me until now that it might be regional and not someone everyone sees all the time?
Feels a bit like when I see a post on r/whatisthisbug about a bumblebee, ladybird or common woodlouse, or r/whatisthisbird post about a feral rock pigeon or seagull, I understand that these animals won’t be as common everywhere in the world but it still feels weird that someone could get to a fully adult age and not have seen one
Yea, it is.
There’s a crack across my screen protector that almost exactly matches the birds, I couldn’t see anything at first.
If disaster movies have taught me anything: always follow the birds
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Yes. It’s probably geese.
Are these*
Crack in the sky, probably kids throwing stones at it.
Autoglass can repair with resin instead of replacing the whole skyline which can be expensive.
Yes and it lloks like European swallows.
Look at all those chickens
Nah. They’re all pissed. It’s a bird conga.
They are geese. Most likely pink-footed geese.
They migrate from Greenland and Iceland in the autumn and spend the winter here. They spend the night at estuaries and the coast, and move inland during the day to graze on fields.
They spend time on the Scottish coast, Lancashire coast (Morecambe bay mostly) and Norfolk, and move between these areas frequently.
This means over the winter it is fairly common to see long “skeins” of hundreds of them as they move to and from feeding grounds, or across the country to different roost sites.
They make high-pitched squeaky honk calls, and are quite distinctive once you recognise them.
In the autumn when they migrate from Iceland and Greenland it is common for them to fly overnight, so it’s not unusual to hear them squeak-honking overhead at night too.
Interesting fact: They fly in a V shape but one side is often longer than the other. That’s because there are more birds on that side.
I thought for a second my eye boogers had returned
Are the birds migrating not is
Might not be actually migrating. They practice a bit first.
Actually had two geese land in my street last winter which was weird considering there’s fields close by.
Then it started snowing so I wonder if geese are grounded by bad weather too ?
I work in Middlesborough and I’ve seen similar for the last 3 weeks when I pop out at lunchtime. They are heading south paralelle to the coast…SO i assumed it was some sort of migration.
They are seriosuly high up though, much higher than when you usualy see a load of birds – Is the collective noun a flock?
[removed]
Birds aren’t real
You should take a trip to north Norfolk.
You will see thousands of geese coming in to Winter there.
It might be Starlink as seen by day.
Was anyone else’s first reaction “what’s that hair on my screen?”
A sky-writer running out of ink? Perhaps it needs to switch to colour…
Chicken Licken is finally right!!!
It’s an arrow pointing to the treasure, follow it
Hair on the lens
Geese, we see them every year in November and early December.
Either that or planning a route map
Geese.
Depends. If they’re African swallows, then probably not
Saw them fly above my house a few nights ago, weird geese.
The amount of sheep in the comments is scary, wake up people
So genuine question because I don’t want to come across as bitchy, but are geese migrations not a common sight across the whole of the UK? Spent all my life on the east coast of Scotland and am used to seeing/hearing several of these a day this time of year, and then again in the spring when they come back. Didn’t occur to me until now that it might be regional and not someone everyone sees all the time?
Feels a bit like when I see a post on r/whatisthisbug about a bumblebee, ladybird or common woodlouse, or r/whatisthisbird post about a feral rock pigeon or seagull, I understand that these animals won’t be as common everywhere in the world but it still feels weird that someone could get to a fully adult age and not have seen one
Yea, it is.
There’s a crack across my screen protector that almost exactly matches the birds, I couldn’t see anything at first.
If disaster movies have taught me anything: always follow the birds