Sunday 17 November 2013

Flying South.... Southwest... 'ish...

A very large flight of Cranes [Grus grus] came over very late on Friday evening...
it was almost totally dark, with low cloud, and we didn't see them.

But Pauline heard them first...
through the double glazing and with the radio on...
and the tap running!

They must have been quite low and directly overhead...
They had a 7.2 kph tail wind to assist them and vanished into the distance at amazing speed...

Boy, were they a'bugling!!
Their conversations were probably on the lines of...
"Told you it would turn nasty this week... we should have left much earlier!!"
"Yes, dear... you've been repeating that all the way! Can we change the subject now, please!!"

... and from the juvenile wing...
"Are we there yet?!"

1 comment:

Colin and Elizabeth said...

Tim we saw the same on Friday about 4:30 flying south west. Probably not the same ones given we are west of you.