However, I am happy to say I can vouch for the fact the phenomenon happens!
We'd gone for a walk along Cockermouth sands in Lancashire; we'd been trying to find a certain farm and had been unsuccessful. However, we had our dog with us and decided a bracing walk along the edge of the salt marshes was a good idea.
We were on our way back to the car; I spotted a Reed Bunting flying over the marsh. I could hear its call, got my camera ready for a photograph and was watching its flight path to anticipate where to try to capture a photograph of it.
I could clearly see the bird in the blue sky ... I could also hear it clearly ... then suddenly I watched it disappear!! It was no longer in sight. I hadn't lost sight of it. No, it was there one minute and gone in an instance. No doubt about it. I watched it disappear right before my eyes.
I'd been commenting to my wife about five minutes earlier, as we watched Canada Geese in flight formation, that many of the migrating birds fly through portals in the earth's magnetic fields, and that was how they travelled the great distances. Going from point A to point B in an instance.
So it was weird to watch a small Reed Bunting seemingly do that very thing before my eyes ... it just seemed to disappear as if it had gone through an invisible (T the human eye) portal.
About ten minutes later, my wife spotted another tiny bird flying above our heads. When I saw it, there appeared a second small bird flying. As I watched, I clearly saw the first one disappear and then the second do the same thing ... again, I did not lose sight of them ... they just disappeared ....
Weird or what?
