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Show Animals and Birds Are Accurate Weather Forecasters If you want to foretell the weather, weath-er, watch birds and animals. It will be fine when swallows fly high, when bats fly late at night, when beetles take to the wing, and when morning chimney smoke rises straight up. Rain is indicated when birds fly low, when peacocks begin to screech, when crows fly up and circle around their nests, when spar rows become excited and chirp continuously, con-tinuously, when morning smoke does not rise, when cattle caper about and when donkeys bray. A change is due when dogs sniff the air, and if you see birds perching on the lower branches of trees a storm is not far away. The presence of cormorants cor-morants at the mouth of a river foretells a heavy gale from the sea. |