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I'm not saying the bird theory is totally implausible, but it doesn't seem to be birds to me. Maybe someone at the Audubon Society can help. Some birds do perform interesting mating dances.

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I just wrote Wildlife Scotland with a link to the video. Hopefully I'll get a reply, but I'm not holding my breath. If those are birds, I'm guessing it's some kind of finch or something very small to move in the manner they do.
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skunkape said:
I'm not saying the bird theory is totally implausible, but it doesn't seem to be birds to me. Maybe someone at the Audubon Society can help. Some birds do perform interesting mating dances.
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don't most birds do their mating dances on the ground?

I just don't think of birds when I watch this. I dunno, they just seem to illuminated, even for a white bird.
 
methshin said:
don't most birds do their mating dances on the ground?
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Eagles and osprey get it on mid-air. Sometimes they don't complete the act in time and smack the ground I hear.
I agree with you that it doesn't look like birds. I wonder if they were only visible in the camera's view-finder or if they appeared luminous to the naked eye.
If you watch around the background you'll see smaller, dimmer objects darting around occasionally . I don't know if that's other objects, or just video artifacts.
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As far as it being birds.......aren't most birds asleep after midnight? I just watched it again, almost a full 8 minutes filmed at 12:30 a.m.For the record, I do not think these are birds. Most birds that you can keep in your field of view for that long of time are going to be birds of prey, hawks, vultures, etc. Those birds aren't flying around at this time of night. Also if you watch all the way until the end, the 2 dots get fainter and fainter as it goes on, as if they are higher and higher in the atmosphere.... I didn't include this in my original post, but I saw something similar with my own eyes once, through a telescope no less. Bright pinpoint of light that made an "S" shaped curve in the field of view through my 8 in. scope. Never forgotten that.
 
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