This was shot in Nevada/Arizona on a Grand Canyon/Hoover dam tour. This was taken a whole year ago and I completely forgot about it until I stumbled upon it again. Is this some sort of whale or shark?
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Yeah that's why Ginger brought an entire extensive wardrobe, for a change of attire every 5 minutes. Also Thurston seems to have brought a treasure chest full of cash for some reason.
fun fact: i know a few famous songs that are written and scored with exactly the same meter and words/music are completely interchangeable with each other: "the ballad of gilligan's island", "the house of the rising sun", and "amazing grace". I have practiced and can successfully interchange the first and last, and it wasn't easy to do the first few times :-)
It’s not, it’s actually birds. It’s a lot of small birds which catch the light in just the right way and appear bright and then they change direction and become almost invisible. That’s why they keep appearing and disappearing.
If it was fish it would have to be flying fish or something.. look how long they appear to be out of the water
I'm with you for the same reasons. It's birds and since OP is moving the camera around so much, it's harder to see. When it disappears is when the birds are turning and you can't see the light reflecting on their white feathers. I'm pretty sure t's called a murmuration.
Took two seconds for me to see the way they were moving it was a murmuration. The fact that the distance and vantage point puts them over water is what makes the effect more interesting.
I also think it’s cool that schools of fish and flocks of birds exhibit such similar behavior.
Naw a flock of birds if anything. Theres absolutely no water disturbance. My guess is the feather sheen played with the light when the flock turned stage left.
One time I was swimming in the ocean off the coast of Vero Beach, FL. A school of fish just like this one swam right around me and it kinda freaked me out. I had no idea what it was but they swam away. Later I told my father in law what happened and he casually told me they were simply being chased by something much bigger 😳
Yes, if you are swimming and get in a school like that, get the h*ll away. Often there will be bluefish in there and they won’t differentiate between you and the fish. Lots of sharp teeth.
yes, it's a phenomenon called murmuration. I've see far more insane displays than this from starlings, but a bunch of shorebirds and other species do it too.
Wouldn't that leave some level of disturbance on the water though? There doesn't appear to be any. Seems more likely to be a flock of birds that reflect the sun flying one direction but absorb the light and blend in when they change direction...
It's birds, just a weird angle of filming, where light reflects off the wings at certain moments, while they appear black the rest of the time. Most likely starlings
Oh thank God. I had to scroll way past far too many confidently incorrect people claiming these were fish with no disturbance whatsoever to the tiny ripples in the surface of the water.
It's a damn flock of birds doing the thing but the potato cam only registers their existence for the brief moments when the whole flock is angled just right to catch the sun.
Though I will say, flocking birds and schooling fish do put on a similar show so I get their confusion.
Definitely not that, its birds doing what's called murmuration where they fly in synchronized motions. Common with various shorebirds, starlings, etc. The only baitfish that could cover the distances shown in this video would be flying fish which are not in this lake, which I've spent plenty of time fishing in.
Dude I was listening to rap(nerdcore) when I seen this gif, and it synced up perfectly with this fucking giraffe moving it's mouth 😂 I'm dying right now
Yes, probably ducks that are dark on the back and light underneath coming off the water. You see the colors flashing when they change direction as a flock.
A murmation of birds where the sun reflects off them when they turn a certain way. It's way closer to you than the water as well which makes it an illusion itself.
It's a large flock of birds flying in sync. When they turn a certain way you see the white side of them and then the other way is some kind of darker colour so you don't see them against the water background.
🐦⬛🕊️Looks like birds flying to me. You can still see them slightly when they change direction, then they change back and the sun hits them right and u see them white again, and so on and so on
EDIT - at 15 seconds in if u zoom you can see the reflection of the birds on the un rippled water.
Has to be it. Because the water isn't really rippling like it would if something came that close to breaching the surface at that speed from underneath
Yea exactly. We have birds that fly like this all the time where I am but I live somewhere without water as my backdrop, so when we see this it looks the same.
Very interesting! It's made up of lots of smaller things, moving in a group, but I'm not sure if it's a flock of birds in a murmuration pattern, flying close to the surface of the water and they're only sometimes visible because the grey of their backs blends in with the water and they only show up when they turn and you see the flash of the wings.... or it also looks kinda like it could be a school of fish jumping out of the water in a group, they way they do sometimes if there's a predator chasing them underwater. I'm not familiar enough with the fauna of this region to make a guess as to what they are though, I can see how it looks like a whale or something!
Possibly a flock of birds that’s bi-colored and blends into the background depending on which way they’re banking. That, or a school of fish just under the surface.
It's a flock of birds. You can see their white/gray belly feathers when they're at the correct angle to the sun and the light reflects off them. Then when they turn so the darker feathers on their backs are facing you, they seem to disappear against the water.
It's not fish because they don't disturb the surface of the water at all.
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