It looks a lot like a seabird caught by the flashgun (bright flash == the eyes, 'smoke' around the light is the body + wings), with the dark streak being the bird exiting stage left. To get the eyes lit up the bird must have been flying towards the camera and must have
been quite close to leave such a long streak. EXIF info in the images indicates that the exposure was long (1/20sec); a bird would probably cover about a metre-ish in that time, so the distance to the end of the track from the camera would have to be quite small (~a couple of metres).
Or it could be a particle beam from one of those star wars satellites getting a bit trigger happy:-)
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It looks a lot like a seabird caught by the flashgun (bright flash == the eyes, 'smoke' around the light is the body + wings), with the dark streak being the bird exiting stage left. To get the eyes lit up the bird must have been flying towards the camera and must have been quite close to leave such a long streak. EXIF info in the images indicates that the exposure was long (1/20sec); a bird would probably cover about a metre-ish in that time, so the distance to the end of the track from the camera would have to be quite small (~a couple of metres). Or it could be a particle beam from one of those star wars satellites getting a bit trigger happy :-)