andamu

The sky was that deep night-time blue when I left the lab around 6.30 a few evenings ago.
In the distance there was a sound like the honkings of a flock of wild geese flying in low formation.
In the sky, in the direction of the sound but far far up, blinked the light of a passenger plane, creating the illusion that the plane was honking, or that the geese had a lantern bearer.
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Not that it could have been geese in the first place - I don't think. End of January should still be too early for them to return.
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Driving to work yesterday a group of maybe thirty little birds swirling in that disconcerting fashion where the entire flock suddenly banks and take off in a random direction, at times turning in on itself, and all perfectly orchestrated.
And then they disappeared only to reappear the next moment 30 feet up and right, but now a smaller flock, perhaps two-thirds of the first.
Unable to make the image work logically, I feverishly considered alternatives, including teleportation.
Then the first group rematerialized - must have turned their smallest profiles toward me, into the sun, just as the second group moved out of the sun and banked.
They joined up with a much larger flock that suddenly became visible, went through a few more random moves in perfect synchronization, and then settled on the various crossbars of a huge pylon, looking for all the world like moss on a tree.