Relay or Triangle

I have come to believe the Delaware Bay is the avian equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle.

During the past weeks the morning sky has been heavily peppered with flocks of birds; birds in such numbers that the individual flocks could be mistaken for thunderheads at the crest of a weather front.

Originating from every compass point, the birds seem to lose their way above the waters off of central Delaware. The flocks meet, cross either under or over one another, and suddenly become an aimless swirling mass.

It's as though their internal GPS' have gone whacky and they are no longer sure whether to maintain their original direction or head off for some other destination.

....Unless of course what I'm witnessing is a series of avian relay races and each bird is busily looking for another to pass the baton to.