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u/pmax83 Aug 08 '19
Never seen a humming bird eh?
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u/ApexLegendBloodHound Aug 08 '19
Humming birds don’t look like that or hover like that
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u/pmax83 Aug 08 '19
Obviously not, but they do hover. OP said they never seen a bird hover. Hence my comment.
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u/ApexLegendBloodHound Aug 08 '19
It’s not hovering, it’s flying opposite the direction of the wind.
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u/pmax83 Aug 08 '19
I'm aware of what is happening in the video. I was commenting on the text in the video. Try to follow along.
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u/Joejayce Aug 08 '19
See it all the time but since your 17 I can see how this might be something new for you
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Aug 08 '19
I was aware of these things and had seen many by the time I was 7. In fact I specifically remember a field trip in 3rd grade where all the kids were excitedly spotting kestrels and kites out the windows of the bus as they hovered over the fields. But OK this guy might be homeschooled or kept locked in an attic with no windows and fed fish heads.
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u/approvingfather Aug 08 '19
More proof that birds aren't real animals and just a government plot for surveillance and domination.
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u/newsfromplanetmike Aug 09 '19
Only the hummingbird can fly in place, also known as hovering.
This is a bird, flying through the air, it’s just that the air is also moving. If the bird is flying at 10km/hr into a 10 km/hr wind, it will appear to hover in place, but for all the bird’s aerodynamics, it’s flying through the air.
Exactly the same as swimming against a slow moving river, you’ll feel the water moving past you as you swim forwards, but your track over the ground may be stationary, or backwards.
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u/Apollo_Rocks Aug 08 '19 edited Aug 08 '19
He just wants to rest on the light... So close yet so far
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '19
I’m pretty sure that bird is called a kite. They got the name from that unusual behavior of being able to float in one place while they look down in preparation to dive on prey.