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Originally Posted by trinitree88
with regards to the OP...i wonder if it was a flock of geese making all the clanging noises on collisions with the windmill.   Geese have been given some very unusual properties to explain away a number of UFO's..............pete |
Well, I've heard a flock of geese hit high power lines (about 70m high, as they are just a km away from the power plant itself) from straight below them. It sounded like this:
flapflflfapflflapfla*quack*flapflaflfa
ZWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIINNNGGGGGG
(that is a more-than-fist thick steel cable doing zwooing)
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BAF!!!!!!
and one dead goose a few meters in front of me on the street, another one on a roof, broke the heavy concrete roof tiles. Even ducks can make those huge cables go zwwwwooooiiing. They hit them fast and hard.
So yeah, they can make quite the noise when hitting stuff. Then we had some power lines nearly 200m above the water. It must have been quite a sight when a goose dropped from these.
As for the windmill, I suspect fatigue/cold related damage above anything hitting the windmill though.