BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here

dpc said:
2. Mixed flock of snow geese and speckled bellies rising from prairie pond
3. Geese flying past inland grain terminal


My wife is from North Dakota and we drive to her parents' house at least a couple times a year from Minnesota and I went to school up there for college as well. It's crazy how big those flocks can be! Literally hundreds of thousands, and even cited as 1-2 Million birds circling around one big field. There's times when you literally cannot see the blue sky behind the flock!


Added a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Drz0ky7aBs <-- not my video, but shows the flocks of geese and how truly massive the number of them can be.
 
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Various birds in flight.
 

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I just had a single week of holiday - and look at the number of excellent pictures posted...

Well at least I can add a few, taken on holiday location.
Unfortunately I often could not come as close as I would have liked (no hide, no permission to enter lots of areas, and in several cases too many other people not aware of the skittishness of birds...) :(

Eurasian Curlew
 

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Hi Wiebe.
A couple of very nice shots there.
I know what you mean, at our local public Hide there is a sign at the top of the path requesting all dogs on a lead, some of us want it changed to no dogs, why bring a predator to look at wild animals?
Yes I know dog lovers say he's cute he won't hurt anything, but wildlife is hard wired to recognise a predator and they all go away somewhere safe when they see this funny looking WOLF.

Then of course there is the "squirrels come to the noise of people there to feed them (Pavlov anyone?) and the birds leave when it gets noisy" argument! ;D

Cheers, Graham.

Nat_WA said:
and in several cases too many other people not aware of the skittishness of birds...) :(

Eurasian Curlew
 
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