Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 11, 2015

I always knew Frazz was a birdbrain, but this is ridiculous!

If those birds were musical notes, there’d be a pretty active base line there….

There’s a video with a guy playing the birds as musical notes, some of it is quite nice.

Crows land on telephone wires to make long-distance caws.

Actually, those birds have the power. But I am being pecky.

Facing into the wind makes it easier to land and take off. More airflow across their wings.

Oh, I always wondered about that…..

“Like a bird on the wire…”—-apologies to Leonard Cohen

Cattle do it for two reasons: to detect predator scents and so they won’t smell the methane they generate! Low flying pilots also use the cattle as a wind direction indicator.

Now I have to wonder — do flightless birds like penguins or ostriches sit facing the wind? (Maybe they do for the same reason as cows).

mggreen603: It is not that, for two reasons: cows upwind from them, and methane is odorless. The smell in biogas is mostly from the hydrogen sulfide, not methane. Natural gas (fossil biogas) has mercapten added to detect leaks; treated biogas leaves a little of the hydrogen sulfide in for the rotten egg smell for the same reason.

And the Cattle stand with their rump to the wind, not their face.

Nope, no Naval aviator training in Colorado Springs. Also, Colo Spgs is about 6000 feet above sea level and even on a hot day, provides MUCH more than “half the lift”. Air Force Academy students fly gliders and do parachute jumps. Plenty of air pressure for both.

Nope, they sit that way waiting for a convertible with the top down—— then, on the count of three—-