@Holly Saunders - I suppose we won't have as many birds here, still I've been around a long time and thankfully never seen a dead birdie - we've rescued two
Highways across the Nation were seeing hundreds of dead crows along the road. Folks were becoming worried that the crow population was diminishing and they could become endangered. Wildlife biologists did discover the crows were all being hit by trucks... none by automobiles. Finally, an ornithological behaviorist... a bird psychologist... discovered the answer. Crows are scavengers. As crows would descend on fresh road kill, they would have a single crow sit close by to warn of approaching vehicles. The warning from the sentry crow would allow the others to leave their meal and get out of the path of the oncoming vehicle. Problem was, the sentry crows could not scream "Truck! Truck! Truck!". All they could scream was "Caw! Caw! Caw!" :>)
Oh took me some seconds there - yea, if I'd have been a crow, I'd have heard 'car car car' !! It's a good 'un
Hailstones - frozen rain, right ? We don't have them in winter though, we have snow So why hailstones in the spring or even summer ?
It is because they freeze at a higher altitude where the air is cold up there enough to freeze them, @Patsy Faye . I am no expert about hail; but I think that they actually go through layers of air, warming and freezing as they fall, and that is how they collect more water , which turned to ice as they hit the next cold layer of air. I think that in the winter there is not such dramatic change in air temperature layers, so when the water freezes into snow, it does not thaw again, and just comes down as snow . I remember seeing a hail storm that hit northern Idaho mid-summer, (sometime in July if I remember correctly) and in a few minutes the whole ground was white with the hail, it came down so hard and fast. Since the weather was very hot, they melted almost as soon as they hit the ground , and it was just like it had never happened, sunny and pure blue skies.
@Yvonne Smith - you have the same explanation as Fabs, but I say it's because God is cross with us so he lets us know that by hurling frozen balls at us
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Headed to work early one morning, driving along on country highways. Had a patrolman pull in behind me. I was not speeding and could not understand why he was following so close. He continued to ride my rear bumper so close I could barely see his grille and headlight in my rear view mirror. All of a sudden, a pheasant came out of the road ditch in front of me. The pheasant hit on the front of my hood, bounced up and over the cab of my truck and hit dead center in the middle of the patrolman's windshield. My rear view mirror did allow me to see the pheasant had smashed the patrol car windshield. Immediately the lights cam on and he pulled me over. Wrote me a traffic ticket............ .... for "flipping him the bird"!!!!!
Good question Chrissy - I guess its because we're occupied, I'd rather it slowed down a bit so we can savour each moment