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What was with all the crazy birds in SE King County Sunday night

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Channel: Real Thing TV · 2015 · News & Politics

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What was with all the crazy birds in SE King County Sunday night?
It wasn't the reincarnation of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, but we got several reports of strange, loud bird behavior in Southeast King County Sunday night. 

People emailed from Graham, Enumclaw, Bonney Lake and South Hill/Puyallup noting the bird commotion, asking us if we had any idea what was happening.

"Anyone know what's going on with the birds??" one person posted on a neighborhood Facebook post. "There have been a lot of them, and I do mean it sounds like a lot of them, over the last several hours. We've lived up here for 10 years, and never, until tonight, heard all this noise. They get quiet, then they start up again. At times they sound like they're in flight, but always close by."

Other reports suggested the flocks sounded "distressed" and were flying in big circles for extended periods. 

"Crazy night in Enumclaw, too," one Tweeted to us. "Lots of squawking,sounded almost like distressed flocks.  Came thru in waves from 10 pm on."

This is a weather blog and I'm not "bird brained" enough to know the ins and outs of bird migrations or what would cause such chaos, but in looking at the weather around the time of the incident -- perhaps therein lies an explanation? 

A cold front was slowly sagging south through the Puget Sound region Sunday evening that had a distinct change in weather on either side of the boundary. For example, on the south side of the front, temperatures were in the 60s with near 100% humidity (i.e., mild and muggy) with southwest winds, and behind the front, it was about 8-10 degrees colder with a wind shift to the north. 

The change was pretty quick when the front passed -- Sea-Tac Airport went from 63 degrees with a west wind to 55 degrees and a north wind within 35 minutes as the front passed. 

Most of the reports of the bird activity were in the 10-11 p.m. time frame. Looking at the radar loop, this is right when the front was passing through SE King County. 

http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/What-was-with-all-the-crazy-birds-in-SE-King-County-Sunday-night-328542601.html

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