Did You See That?

The fantastic landing that was made in the Hudson River the other day by the bird struck US Airways Airbus revived a flying memory. No, I didn't crash land and walk away, I was simply flying home to Sacramento late one winter evening. As the plane made its turn to line up with a runway hidden below the clouds, I looked down and saw a huge flock of Canadian geese flying just above the clouds. It was a bright moonlit night and I could see them quite distinctly, silhouetted, dark on light. Did the pilot see them? And if there was one flock, were there more? We kept turning and descending and just as we dropped into the cloud cover, I could see the flock disappearing behind us. Beautiful and scary.