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One morning, as I took the children to school, these birds stood motionless on the electricity wires (don't they get electrocuted?), enjoying the bright sunny day in the autumn weather. I don't know what they were waiting for, but they hung around there for the next few days too.
"Loitering"---that's funny.
ReplyDeleteInteresting phenomenon.
ίσως να περίμεναν τον φωτογράφο που θα τα προβάλει σε όλο τον κόσμο.
ReplyDeletealways a pleasant sight!!
ReplyDeleteThe cables are insulated so they are quite safe - we see this kind of thing a lot too.
ReplyDeleteI look to see swallows like this at this time of year - but they seem less common these days.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fascinating sight. I think they rest because they can feel that the weather is not good for flying. I have observed the same thing with seagulls. They rest altogether like ducks on the surface of the water and usually the weather turns windy and rains...Birds are still more in sync with the nature i think :-D
ReplyDeletecool. great observation here. :)
ReplyDeleteThe birds can sit on any electricity wire and they will not be electrocuted. You could hang on a wire also and you would still be OK. As long as you had no contact with earth - the ground - because then the electricity would flow through you to ground and you would die.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course you are not going to do that are you Maria, because if you did I would lose a great friend.
Take care
Ray
It is very intersting how the birds sometimes congregate on the electric wires. I believe they can be happy that their legs are not long enough to touch the ground. :-)If they were, they would be in for a shock!
ReplyDeleteKiwi, you can walk through as long as you are modestly dressed and do not point a camera at the residents. Yesterday I joined a guided tour of English-speaking immigrants on the subject "19th century Jerusalem." Among other things, we were scheduled to walk through Mea Shearim, THE bastion of ultra-Orthodox Jews. But when the guide saw that the group was 20 or 25, he would not take us into the neighborhood. The residents are against big groups of noisey and nosey tourists walking through their narrow streets, staring at them as if they were strange zoo animals. Can't blame them.
ReplyDeleteSo we went to religious Geula instead. My first time.
Sure, just give yourselves plenty of time to wander around the off the beaten track places. We'll get together if I'm not working then.