Birds like playing on my solar panels (cute picture and video)
One day charging with solar in Washington Square Park, I saw a bunch of birds flapping around on the panels. I’m not sure if you can see them playing around in this picture. The video below partly captures their playfulness, but not as much as seeing them.
They’d flap up onto the panel, then flap around up and down, solo, in pairs, and in groups. It was a warm day, otherwise I’d presume they were trying to use the warmth of the dark surface to heat themselves up.
Adding to the mystery, I’ve brought the panels out probably hundreds of times and I’d never seen them doing it before or since. If any readers are birders and can tell what they were doing, I’d love to know. In the meantime, it remains a mystery.
A cute, adorable mystery.
This video shows the very tail end of them playing around. I took too long to get the camera out. You can see a bunch of them on the ground, but I missed when five or ten of them jumped up and down the face of the panel.
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