Sometimes, if it is close to being a Total or Annular eclipse, the wind will blow, and the temperature may drop quite a bit. During Total or Annular Eclipses, you begin to understand just how important the sun is to Earth. Not only does the sky get as dark as night as the sun's light is blocked, but strong winds spring up due to the rapid and uneven cooling of the Earth in the path of the eclipse. Another interesting thing that happens during these dark eclipses is that animals that generally sleep at night will actually go to sleep. Birds roost, and other animals curl up to sleep.
Nocturnal animals begin to wake up and move around.
Since the darkest part of an eclipse doesn't last for even a half hour, when it's over, the daytime animals wake up and the nocturnal animals try to go back to sleep. They are all very confused. They resemble clear, dark grey strips of crepe paper lined up row after row with about the same amount of open space between the strips as the strips are wide. When the event begins, they appear to simply be lying on the ground. As the event progresses, however, they appear to move toward you, undulating over the ground, following the contours of the ground that they appear to move over.