I was sitting on my deck watching the birds feed and snapped this photo.
Weather Proverbs About Birds
Did you know that bird behavior can help us predict the weather? Closely observe nature and your feathered friends—you might be surprised by what you learn!
One of these days, take a moment to look up. Watch birds in flight. Birds flying high in the sky usually indicate fair weather. As the adage goes …
- Hawks flying high means a clear sky. When they fly low, prepare for a blow.
- Geese fly higher in fair weather than in foul.
Air pressure does indeed affect birds. For example, swallows have sensitive ears; when the barometric pressure drops, they fly as close to the ground as possible, where air density is greatest. Generally, low-flying birds are a sign of rain; high flyers indicate fair weather.
Migrating birds can fly more easily in dense, high-pressure conditions. Therefore, geese may fly high when a high-pressure system moves to the area. High-pressure systems are associated with fair weather.
Birds tend to stop flying and take refuge at the coast if a storm is coming. They’ll also fly low to avoid the discomfort of the falling air pressure.
- When seagulls fly inland, expect a storm.
- When fowl roost in daytime, expect rain.
- Petrels gathering under the stern of a ship indicates bad weather.
Birds tend to get very quiet before a big storm. If you’ve ever been walking in the woods before a storm, the natural world is eerily silent! Birds also sing if the weather is improving.
- Birds singing in the rain indicates fair weather approaching.
Here are more bird proverbs and prognostics. Enjoy!
- If crows fly in pairs, expect fine weather; a crow flying alone is a sign of foul weather.
- The whiteness of a goose’s breastbone indicates the kind of winter: A red or dark-spotted bone means a cold and stormy winter; few or light-colored spots mean a mild winter.
- In the fall, drumming partridges mean a mild and open winter.
- When domestic geese walk east and fly west, expect cold weather.
- If birds in the autumn grow tame, the winter will be too cold for game.
- When the rooster goes crowing to bed, he will rise with a watery head.
- When the swallow’s nest is high, the summer is very dry. When the swallow buildeth low, you can safely reap and sow.
We humans can learn so much from birds! Enjoy more about animals and weather folklore!
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I have read about how low pressure that comes before s storm causes birds discomfort so the fly lower then they usually do I have also seen birds using tire tracks in the snow to scratch through to the ground and reach food
Birds and other living creatures are probably confused about the weather and don't know how to act. Because of end time weather.
I read that Black Billed and Yellow Billed Cuckoos were called rain Crows because their calling was suppost to mean it will Rain and LOONS WERE CALLED RAIN GOOSE BECUASE IT WAS THOUGHT THEIR CALLING MEANT RAIN and i once heard Western Meadowlark sing in the Rain(Holy Gene Kelly Batman)and i have seen Snowbirds(Oregon Juncos)appear when there is snow coming
My husband and I observed what appeared to be thousands of robins on our southern Maryland property and on our neighbors' properties as well. The robins were on nearby paved streets, on the ground and in the grass, on power lines, and in all of the trees -- everywhere we looked, literally everywhere -- like they were gathering. It was autumn and overcast, but it didn't rain. The silence was almost deafening. Reminded us of Alfreda Hitchcock's "The Birds." We got in our car, went to the store, and returned home. They didn't scatter from starting the engine and moving the car, and they were still there 20 to 30 minutes later when we returned. This happened a second time a few years later, only there were not nearly as many birds. We've lived here for more than 20 years, in this area for better than 65 years, and we've never seen anything like this. What could this have been, and just how unusual is this?
Robin Flocks: What I have read is Canadian Robins MIGRATE each year to the United States during the Autumn; to avoid the harsh Canadians Winters; the Robin flock will spend the winter in the USA; then return to Canada late winter early spring to build their nests and raise their young during the summer;
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