Most of my emphatic spiritual love for nature is because of animals. When I was driving today and had to pull over to view thousands of birds painting in the sky and playing, in concert, dancing as if no one was watching. I was.

You have got to see this video. It’s about as close as I can get you to what I witnessed today.

A Jinormous amount of birds, never colliding, all wanting to land on a tree simultaneaoulsly. The poor cedar tree is only so big, and were talking thousands of Starling birds.

 Cool bird facts for your retinal pleasure

The only known poisonous bird in the world is the hooded pitohui of Papua, New Guinea. The poison is found in its skin and feathers.

The American turkey vulture helps human engineers detect cracked or broken underground fuel pipes. The leaking fuel smells like vulture food (they eat carrion), and the clustered birds show repair people where the lines need fixing.

Pigeons can reach speeds up to 100 mph.

Swifts, doves, falcons, and sandpipers can approach 200 mph

Humminbirds make love, yes, copulate,  at speeds above 40 mph. Wow, talk about multi-tasking.

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