The Core.
I’d hate to have one of those hit my windshield...
As a “WKRP in Cincinnati” fan, all I can think of is, “God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
Hail! I wonder what happened?
Awww, poor geese.
Wasn’t that about the same time 0bama was flying to Ohio to brag about the 25 new police jobs he created? Maybe Air Force One has some kind of goose death ray to protect itself from bird strikes?
Windshear. It has dropped airliners like rocks before. Too bad, geese don't have the new doppler radar to warn them.
Does anyone know where pilot “Sully” Sullenberger was at the time?
What State is this? Please put in subject line, THX!
Not necessarily lightening per se, but perhaps the geese were in precisely the right spot for the intense resultant concussion of the thunder clap to stun them.
There would not be any evidence I would think. The disoriented, or knocked out birds would fall, and their bodies would be crushed by the impact of hitting the ground.
A little speculation on my part.
"Porter says that the most spectacular birding events happen during what is called “fall out” conditions. “Waiting for a good tail wind, the birds begin their migration from the Yucatan Peninsula around dusk and fly for 600 miles before arriving along the coast the next afternoon,” he said. “If the weather is right some of the birds may fly as far as Montgomery or Birmingham before stopping to rest. But, if the weather changes in flight and they fly into a head wind or cold front, the exhausted birds literally fall out of the sky by the hundreds onto Dauphin Island.”
Hummingbirds will fly for 26 hours to cross the Gulf Of Mexico to come here too.
Free airkill. Roast with potatoes and cranberries.
Reminds me of the old joke/story. Two airplanes were lining up to take off, when the control tower contacted them to tell then that there was a dead deer on Runway 7.
The first plane confirmed it and said it would avoid it. The second plane radioed the tower, saying: “We see it and have already notified our caterer.”
Bon Appetit!
Re “Cackling geese”. Did anyone see Nancy Pelosi in that flock? Any flock? I swear I heard her flying overhead near DC in a flock of Canadian Geese. A worse cackle than that of the Wicked Witch of the West. Oh, she IS the Wicked Witch of the West. Sorry.
My dad told that when he was a kid in depression times (New York state) he delivered newspapers early in the morning. One morning there were dead geese all over the fields. The folks in the area had goose for dinner for a couple of days. The geese probably flew into a thick cloud bank and couldn’t see. They will just fold up their wings and fall to the ground. Ducks will do the same thing.