This is the stuff of nightmares

[Gaia]

But this scary sight in the sky was very real. What looks to be thousands of birds darken the afternoon sky over a busy street. The creepy scene caught on camera Tonight at 11 from ABC7 Eyewitness News last night in Houston.



http://abc7.com/pets/flock-of-birds-invade-sky-in-houston-neighborhood/489068/

[thepainterdoug]

right out of hitchcocks " the birds". cant say whats normal anymore.

[Guish]

Haha, normal doesn't exist. However, the birds weren't aggressive. It was just a spectacular sight.

[DeDukshyn]

I was listening to an interesting interview on the radio the other day, the topic was passenger pigeons, which are now extinct. The interviewee was an old man who was recalling the story of these once ubiquitous birds, where a flock with over a million birds would fly by, block out the sun and take several minutes to pass. They have been known to live in "colonies" covering hundreds of square miles of forest, with up to a hundred nests in a tree. It was estimated that at one time, 30%-40% of all land birds in the US were passenger pigeons.

Amazing that they went extinct -- apparently they were good eating.

A large flock of birds isn't that weird. It's more weird that we don't see them anymore ... and are shocked when we do.

[Gaia]

A large flock of birds isn't that weird. It's more weird that we don't see them anymore ... and are shocked when we do.

I agree with you it's really impressive!

No adequate attempt to protect them (pigeons) was made until they practically had disappeared. Whenever a law looking toward the conservation of these birds was proposed in any Contry, its opponents argued before the legislative committees that the Pigeons "needed no protection"; that their numbers were so vast, and that they ranged over such a great extent of country, that they were simply able to take care of themselves. This argument defeated all measures that might have given adequate protection to this species. That is why extinction finally came quickly. We did our best to exterminate both old and young, and we succeeded awfully.

[ghostrider]

I saw the same thing Friday outside our office ... it was spooky ... with the many geese , ducks , and different birds that come to our area , as we are surrounded in a horse shoe by a huge lake , these blackbirds have never been around until now ... I looked at it as a sign from nature , something is brewing that is not normal ...

[Maia Gabrial]

I can't help wondering if all the HAARP and weather modifications are interfering with their natural inner guidance systems...? They're acting strangely, but nothing like out of Hitchcock's movie.
I've noticed up here that more and more birds were sticking around for winter. Poor things....I'd watch them flying together in circles for short jaunts. It really looked like they were doing this to just stay warm. Maybe these are the forerunners of a new species of birds that will endure harsh winters.

[Citizen No2]

DeDukshyn, I also saw this. I believe that what was stated was that the flock was so big it would take three days for it to pass overhead.

When I hear tales like this is saddens me. Saddens me that what sights there were to behold are now gone.

Mother Nature must weep.