Feb 6, 2018 9:44 AM
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bryronic
Murmur, murmur, murmuration.
jaustinporter8888
This looks like the intersection of Gross Road and 635 in Mesquite, TX, I recognize the On the Border and gas stations.
JDashR
ahaha this is any HEB in Austin, TX
CockerSpanielMafia
Wow!
AWittyUsernameBecauseTheOneIWantedWasTaken
https://imgur.com/mUJ7MPk
TheS4ndm4n
Pissed mozes off again?
ChiefMcKembie
Laimbrane
I've seen starling swarms like this, but those are far more spectacular to look at because their formations ebb and flow.
v
AuraOfSouls
Horrifying? Visit Florida. Witness the sun being blacked out by mosquitos... that's horrifying.
GirdleTurtle
Seriously? That is horrifying.
balentay
http://gif-finder.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Group-of-birds-simultaneously-flying-off-a-tree.gif
Tatsumaru004
They're grackles. It's like this all over Texas because the hawk population was hunted to endangerment. Now flying rats are out of control.
ConAirWasAGreatMovie
I can hear the crap hitting my windshield
ProbablyDrunkAgain
Shits. Shits everywhere.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Carpet bombing
AcidicVanLividLove
"Eagles win the Superbowl!!"
CandyDickDaddyWithTheSugarBalls
Bird gang!
iamalreadyaghost
No it’s not. A crowd of humans is horrifying. a group of crows is not
BrapOn
Grackle life, Texas (most likely)
redrockNOLAblues
I remember the Grackles roosting in the trees on campus. You had to use an umbrella to walk anywhere to keep from being shat upon.
Geeknerd1337
Makes me miss Texas so much, something weirdly beautiful about this.
edgee73
salunatics
...I thought that would big news. You thought what would be big news? Well there seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece...
SingularWit
Dammit now it's in my head, and will be for the rest of the day. +1
TheFastpaws
And thus I'd never get out of my car. Not in fear of the birds but I wouldn't want to be covered in bird shit.
eurekaaa
I’m more horrified at these borders, wtf
SaltyInternetPirate
They look confused as if the Earth's magnetic fields are suddenly changing.
ProfessorDumbass
..or whatever they are eating is changing direction
loonylogan
Twitter is really getting out of hand
PirateFroglet
I bet they all say 'Winter has come'
FractalChainsaw
It's how the messages get from computer to computer, okay?
Grudgezilla
CompressedInfo
Looks like Black Twitter to me
DickwadMcDucking
Wonder what they're saying
TresusIbor
When the crew...
sparkingfuse
Not horrifying, just nature. It's a bird murmuration. http://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2012/dec/blackbirds-120711.html
ConfederacyOfDunces
Except these are Grackles, most likely in Texas.
Murmurations can consist of true blackbirds (red-winged, specifically) but also common grackles, brown-headed cowbirds and starlings.
GeneralAnubis
Loud, annoying mother effers
Baby dinosaurs.
cemeterymeri
Maybe that's why a group of them is commonly called a plague or annoyance. Just learned that
Bonevi
absolutezero182
Only thing horrifying about that is imagining the mess of birdshit they'll leave behind
crippl3dhobnob
not amurder of crows, more like genocide
JimNeverHasASecondCupOfCoffeeAtHome
*Hitchcock intensifies*
kevinUnityClicker
Free bird poop for one and all!
Jupman
Grakels...freaking Texas.
pedrotothemax
Grackles. Demons.
I wore like Grackles. They're like tiny flying velociraptors.
bikemerc
at least they are indigenous. Starlings and sparrows are invasive.
Masier
Um, hi 911. I'd like to report a murder.
momemes
nic
Pinky302
I see what you did there +1
RemiRixJones
SeeBeyond
I vaguely remember this being a repost and this exact comment being written.
WhoIsThatMeYesMe
Buck39
Ugh, this guy again. Look buddy, don't call us again. Nevermore.
GeneralLeeAdyck
At this point I think you’d call in a massacre
redcell6
justsignedupforthishit
Oh, you! Great tern of phrase! People are already flocking to your wisdomous comments to see the wings of flightful thoughts!
ThemajesticYiliyen
911: Where? Caller: Um, everywhere
DracoSicarius
Alternatively, 911: Where? Me: Yes
TehGoon
I’m the one to the left
RipleysBelieveItOrDie
*mass murder
manicconstructive2x4
Looks like a shitstorm
cathyarctic
I get it!
senorsamuel
Favorite post just for this comment alone
ErocktheKasbah
You SOB....that was the perfect comment.
LatrineUsedToBeShitHouse
It would be perfect if they were crows and not Grackles.
RabidDingo
Oddly enough a group of Grackles is called a manslaughter.
konelhft
I've heard "a plague of grackles".
SunfishHero
Bravo
BobbalishBobbus
A muuurder, marge...
photosforbikeforum
A gackel is a group of grackles
Gackle
landisfloatingrock
yep. dem be boattails allright...
GirlWithTheDragonSticker
For those who are, um, tired, a flock of crows is called a ‘murder’
SteelMemesCantMeltDankBeams
Thank you for doing the lords work
Verycreative123abc
Appropriate.
BamboozleInsurance
WHY HAS NO ONE EVER TOLD ME THIS INFORMATION
nrvagntsoleatr360
borringnumber
is this TX? i have seen black birds do this in addison/dallas.
marsgoose
Yup, needs a flamethrower
SirStrongBad
Work in Addison. Can confirm
cuddlydingo
Must be an HEB nearby.
dodiexpress
This looks like it is off midway and spring valley.
NeelboBaggins
I was thinking Preston and George Bush
KanyeWesticularCancer
Can confirm I went to college near Dallas. This was so common we had to cut down trees near sidewalks cause they’d get pasted with shit.
ButtersTheCat
They're called Grackles, and they're probably at a Walmart. That's how we roll in TX.
wearebobiverse
Can confirm. Birds were flocking all around my place last night, straight up Alfred Hitchcock
Lexington38
I have seen this in Fort Worth, also there’s an On the Border in this video which is Texas only afaik.
WaffleDestroyer
These are Grackles
pobody
We had tons of these around college station, parking lots and streets would be inches deep in shit.
Groundskeepers would hose off the sidewalks every day and it would smell like hell.
giantflapjacksandsuch
Yeah. Ill bet it's North Dallas. The phone number on the van is a 214 number.
Looks like Preston heading north right before George Bush Turnpike
indrada3290609
Nice catch
t0ymach1n3
I drive down beltline in that area and can confirm. Creepy as shit
erischilde
In Vancouver we have this too. Nightly there's a river of Crows in the sky going from one side of the city to another. It's amazing.
LostLadyTX
I was about to say this happens in Lewisville on 35 and 121 but they just all sit there and then fly up all of a sudden
themuttonisniceandlean
Walmart in S. Austin has this, and then let's not even mention when the bats come out of the Congress St. Bridge.
nateglen350
Let’s not, I hate bats. But I’ve seen them from the park awesome sight.
But think of all the bugs we'd have if bats didn't eat so many at night with all of ATX's standing/slow moving water.
Thesmithlord
It is about time for Bird season 1 in Texas, also known as the great vernal grackle migration.
lolunix
Also in Houston
bond21
Totally about to ask this. Freaked me out the first year i lived there.
GangOfNahr19
This also happens every year in Waco
linustheman
This happens all over Texas
MathIsAMess
Often saw this at intersection of Greenville and lovers lane
Yep, seen this just the other day on my way home. Dallas.
sweatyballs6389
Live in Mansfield, birds do this in Arlington all the time
Cynicalinc
Live in Burleson south of Fort Worth. Can confirm there are a couple of spots they gather every night like this.
isthisusernamealreadychosen
Woo Dallas!
idratherbeoutdoors
The Wal-Mart in Huntsville had to cut down all of its trees because of these birds too.
Ktigre
Gross Rd. and N Peachtree Rd in Mesquite matches up with the buildings in the video. (I really wanted to see if I could find it...)
Looks like a gas station straight, and the melting pot? To the left
It's Gross rd and peachtree in mesquite. I spent way too long checking all the on the border resturants to find it...
good job, thanks!
214 number on the bus in front
Yes, it's literally Gross Rd and Peachtree in Mesquite.
a lot of people were trying to figure this out, g
beccerz777
This happens in the greater Houston area as well
comehomefransbrauder
And those bats under Allen Pkwy used to scare me to death every evening.
sissy
hahahaha
These are grackels. Whenever they congregate like that, there's a cold front coming. They're annoying AF but good predictors of the weather.
JuliusPepperwoodFromChicago
I see them all the time. Not just when cold fronts are coming.
SkeletonRecruiter
They do this in Houston too! I didn't know the cold front thing, that's pretty cool!
mattbl
So what does "cold front" mean for TX?
Ha. Depends on what part. In Dallas, where I live, cold fronts can be pretty significant. In Houston, where I used to live, it usually 1/2
just means drier air pushing in. Dallas though can get downright freezing cold. Not as much this year or last (such a rip off) 2/2
but I remember some crazy winters in Dallas. Only remember one in all the years I lived in Houston. They like staying warm down there.
VigorousButtstuff
It either means the weather will get nicer for a while, or there's a damn Monsoon about to blow through from the west.
AukyOH
it means im fixin to get realllllyyyyt busy at work.
TheActualDonKnotts
Depends on where you are in the state and what time of year it is. I've had two feet of snow in my yard before.
They do it every day, here. They're supposed to be migratory, but they never leave.
MJRocky
That made me laugh
valkyrie9
This happens in Ohio in the fall also
TheStonewall
And in Missouri.
Idontlikewearingshoes
I live in Austin and it can get this bad so I wouldn't be surprised if it was Dallas like others said.
deepdishbooty
I'm glad I experienced this growing up in Austin BEFORE I saw The Birds
nattyd20
Hell, even up in Georgetown the intersection of I35 and Highway29 gets like this. I make it a game to get through without getting shat on
ValoSaurusRex
214 area code on the bus
Anonymous0726
Austin also has bats, right?
Yes, under a lot of the bridges including Congress bridge where they have the bat festival every year.
AceOfLace
35 and Rundberg is the same, I see it all the time on my commute. Sup Austin imgurians? :D
MistressTacoPants
I moved to Austin a few years ago and the first time I saw this it scared the crap out of me.
tripurari
William Cannon and i35 looks just like this at dusk.
That's actually right where I live too.
35 and Parmer gets the same way. Terrifying!
biggp2
I think you mean "THE BIRDS HEB"
Haha, I'm using and sharing that term now.
bryronic
Murmur, murmur, murmuration.
jaustinporter8888
This looks like the intersection of Gross Road and 635 in Mesquite, TX, I recognize the On the Border and gas stations.
JDashR
ahaha this is any HEB in Austin, TX
CockerSpanielMafia
AWittyUsernameBecauseTheOneIWantedWasTaken
https://imgur.com/mUJ7MPk
TheS4ndm4n
Pissed mozes off again?
ChiefMcKembie
Laimbrane
I've seen starling swarms like this, but those are far more spectacular to look at because their formations ebb and flow.
Laimbrane
AuraOfSouls
Horrifying? Visit Florida. Witness the sun being blacked out by mosquitos... that's horrifying.
GirdleTurtle
Seriously? That is horrifying.
balentay
http://gif-finder.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Group-of-birds-simultaneously-flying-off-a-tree.gif
Tatsumaru004
They're grackles. It's like this all over Texas because the hawk population was hunted to endangerment. Now flying rats are out of control.
ConAirWasAGreatMovie
I can hear the crap hitting my windshield
ProbablyDrunkAgain
Shits. Shits everywhere.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Carpet bombing
AcidicVanLividLove
"Eagles win the Superbowl!!"
CandyDickDaddyWithTheSugarBalls
Bird gang!
iamalreadyaghost
No it’s not. A crowd of humans is horrifying. a group of crows is not
BrapOn
Grackle life, Texas (most likely)
redrockNOLAblues
I remember the Grackles roosting in the trees on campus. You had to use an umbrella to walk anywhere to keep from being shat upon.
Geeknerd1337
Makes me miss Texas so much, something weirdly beautiful about this.
edgee73
salunatics
...I thought that would big news. You thought what would be big news? Well there seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece...
SingularWit
Dammit now it's in my head, and will be for the rest of the day. +1
TheFastpaws
And thus I'd never get out of my car. Not in fear of the birds but I wouldn't want to be covered in bird shit.
eurekaaa
I’m more horrified at these borders, wtf
SaltyInternetPirate
They look confused as if the Earth's magnetic fields are suddenly changing.
ProfessorDumbass
..or whatever they are eating is changing direction
loonylogan
Twitter is really getting out of hand
PirateFroglet
I bet they all say 'Winter has come'
FractalChainsaw
It's how the messages get from computer to computer, okay?
Grudgezilla
CompressedInfo
Looks like Black Twitter to me
DickwadMcDucking
Wonder what they're saying
TresusIbor
When the crew...
sparkingfuse
Not horrifying, just nature. It's a bird murmuration. http://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2012/dec/blackbirds-120711.html
ConfederacyOfDunces
Except these are Grackles, most likely in Texas.
sparkingfuse
Murmurations can consist of true blackbirds (red-winged, specifically) but also common grackles, brown-headed cowbirds and starlings.
GeneralAnubis
Loud, annoying mother effers
ConfederacyOfDunces
Baby dinosaurs.
cemeterymeri
Maybe that's why a group of them is commonly called a plague or annoyance. Just learned that
Bonevi
absolutezero182
Only thing horrifying about that is imagining the mess of birdshit they'll leave behind
crippl3dhobnob
not amurder of crows, more like genocide
JimNeverHasASecondCupOfCoffeeAtHome
*Hitchcock intensifies*
kevinUnityClicker
Free bird poop for one and all!
Jupman
Grakels...freaking Texas.
pedrotothemax
Grackles. Demons.
ConfederacyOfDunces
I wore like Grackles. They're like tiny flying velociraptors.
bikemerc
at least they are indigenous. Starlings and sparrows are invasive.
Masier
Um, hi 911. I'd like to report a murder.
momemes
nic
Pinky302
I see what you did there +1
RemiRixJones
SeeBeyond
I vaguely remember this being a repost and this exact comment being written.
WhoIsThatMeYesMe
Buck39
Ugh, this guy again. Look buddy, don't call us again. Nevermore.
GeneralLeeAdyck
At this point I think you’d call in a massacre
redcell6
justsignedupforthishit
Oh, you! Great tern of phrase! People are already flocking to your wisdomous comments to see the wings of flightful thoughts!
ThemajesticYiliyen
911: Where? Caller: Um, everywhere
DracoSicarius
Alternatively, 911: Where? Me: Yes
TehGoon
I’m the one to the left
RipleysBelieveItOrDie
*mass murder
manicconstructive2x4
Looks like a shitstorm
cathyarctic
I get it!
senorsamuel
Favorite post just for this comment alone
ErocktheKasbah
You SOB....that was the perfect comment.
LatrineUsedToBeShitHouse
It would be perfect if they were crows and not Grackles.
RabidDingo
Oddly enough a group of Grackles is called a manslaughter.
konelhft
I've heard "a plague of grackles".
SunfishHero
Bravo
BobbalishBobbus
A muuurder, marge...
photosforbikeforum
A gackel is a group of grackles
photosforbikeforum
Gackle
landisfloatingrock
yep. dem be boattails allright...
GirlWithTheDragonSticker
For those who are, um, tired, a flock of crows is called a ‘murder’
SteelMemesCantMeltDankBeams
Thank you for doing the lords work
Verycreative123abc
Appropriate.
BamboozleInsurance
WHY HAS NO ONE EVER TOLD ME THIS INFORMATION
nrvagntsoleatr360
borringnumber
is this TX? i have seen black birds do this in addison/dallas.
marsgoose
Yup, needs a flamethrower
SirStrongBad
Work in Addison. Can confirm
cuddlydingo
Must be an HEB nearby.
dodiexpress
This looks like it is off midway and spring valley.
NeelboBaggins
I was thinking Preston and George Bush
KanyeWesticularCancer
Can confirm I went to college near Dallas. This was so common we had to cut down trees near sidewalks cause they’d get pasted with shit.
ButtersTheCat
They're called Grackles, and they're probably at a Walmart. That's how we roll in TX.
wearebobiverse
Can confirm. Birds were flocking all around my place last night, straight up Alfred Hitchcock
Lexington38
I have seen this in Fort Worth, also there’s an On the Border in this video which is Texas only afaik.
WaffleDestroyer
These are Grackles
pobody
We had tons of these around college station, parking lots and streets would be inches deep in shit.
pobody
Groundskeepers would hose off the sidewalks every day and it would smell like hell.
giantflapjacksandsuch
Yeah. Ill bet it's North Dallas. The phone number on the van is a 214 number.
NeelboBaggins
Looks like Preston heading north right before George Bush Turnpike
indrada3290609
Nice catch
t0ymach1n3
I drive down beltline in that area and can confirm. Creepy as shit
erischilde
In Vancouver we have this too. Nightly there's a river of Crows in the sky going from one side of the city to another. It's amazing.
LostLadyTX
I was about to say this happens in Lewisville on 35 and 121 but they just all sit there and then fly up all of a sudden
themuttonisniceandlean
Walmart in S. Austin has this, and then let's not even mention when the bats come out of the Congress St. Bridge.
nateglen350
Let’s not, I hate bats. But I’ve seen them from the park awesome sight.
themuttonisniceandlean
But think of all the bugs we'd have if bats didn't eat so many at night with all of ATX's standing/slow moving water.
Thesmithlord
It is about time for Bird season 1 in Texas, also known as the great vernal grackle migration.
lolunix
Also in Houston
bond21
Totally about to ask this. Freaked me out the first year i lived there.
GangOfNahr19
This also happens every year in Waco
linustheman
This happens all over Texas
MathIsAMess
Often saw this at intersection of Greenville and lovers lane
GeneralAnubis
Yep, seen this just the other day on my way home. Dallas.
sweatyballs6389
Live in Mansfield, birds do this in Arlington all the time
Cynicalinc
Live in Burleson south of Fort Worth. Can confirm there are a couple of spots they gather every night like this.
isthisusernamealreadychosen
Woo Dallas!
idratherbeoutdoors
The Wal-Mart in Huntsville had to cut down all of its trees because of these birds too.
Ktigre
Gross Rd. and N Peachtree Rd in Mesquite matches up with the buildings in the video. (I really wanted to see if I could find it...)
borringnumber
Looks like a gas station straight, and the melting pot? To the left
Ktigre
It's Gross rd and peachtree in mesquite. I spent way too long checking all the on the border resturants to find it...
borringnumber
good job, thanks!
borringnumber
214 number on the bus in front
Ktigre
Yes, it's literally Gross Rd and Peachtree in Mesquite.
borringnumber
a lot of people were trying to figure this out, g
beccerz777
This happens in the greater Houston area as well
comehomefransbrauder
And those bats under Allen Pkwy used to scare me to death every evening.
photosforbikeforum
sissy
comehomefransbrauder
hahahaha
comehomefransbrauder
These are grackels. Whenever they congregate like that, there's a cold front coming. They're annoying AF but good predictors of the weather.
JuliusPepperwoodFromChicago
I see them all the time. Not just when cold fronts are coming.
SkeletonRecruiter
They do this in Houston too! I didn't know the cold front thing, that's pretty cool!
mattbl
So what does "cold front" mean for TX?
comehomefransbrauder
Ha. Depends on what part. In Dallas, where I live, cold fronts can be pretty significant. In Houston, where I used to live, it usually 1/2
comehomefransbrauder
just means drier air pushing in. Dallas though can get downright freezing cold. Not as much this year or last (such a rip off) 2/2
comehomefransbrauder
but I remember some crazy winters in Dallas. Only remember one in all the years I lived in Houston. They like staying warm down there.
VigorousButtstuff
It either means the weather will get nicer for a while, or there's a damn Monsoon about to blow through from the west.
AukyOH
it means im fixin to get realllllyyyyt busy at work.
TheActualDonKnotts
Depends on where you are in the state and what time of year it is. I've had two feet of snow in my yard before.
ButtersTheCat
They do it every day, here. They're supposed to be migratory, but they never leave.
MJRocky
That made me laugh
valkyrie9
This happens in Ohio in the fall also
TheStonewall
And in Missouri.
Idontlikewearingshoes
I live in Austin and it can get this bad so I wouldn't be surprised if it was Dallas like others said.
deepdishbooty
I'm glad I experienced this growing up in Austin BEFORE I saw The Birds
nattyd20
Hell, even up in Georgetown the intersection of I35 and Highway29 gets like this. I make it a game to get through without getting shat on
ValoSaurusRex
214 area code on the bus
Anonymous0726
Austin also has bats, right?
Idontlikewearingshoes
Yes, under a lot of the bridges including Congress bridge where they have the bat festival every year.
AceOfLace
35 and Rundberg is the same, I see it all the time on my commute. Sup Austin imgurians? :D
MistressTacoPants
I moved to Austin a few years ago and the first time I saw this it scared the crap out of me.
tripurari
William Cannon and i35 looks just like this at dusk.
Idontlikewearingshoes
That's actually right where I live too.
MistressTacoPants
35 and Parmer gets the same way. Terrifying!
biggp2
I think you mean "THE BIRDS HEB"
tripurari
Haha, I'm using and sharing that term now.