On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:05:40 -0000, "john reves"
wrote:

About 1700 hrs in north west london today, we saw about 50 birds or so
travelling together in several * V * formations and they were heading due
East.

I guess i'm used to seeing birds flying south for the sunny weather and
north to come back again; but what would all these guys be doing, do you
think?

Wonderful sight - harbinger of spring.

Maybe, since these birds took off way down south to fly north, the
earth has rotated a bit so when they arrived at their destination it
wasn't there any more and so they turned right to find it?

Either that or the one in front fancied a curry!

Only joking!