Last Sunday, April 3, I spent some time at Big Stone NWR. At about 3:00 p.m., I witnessed quite a sight: a giant, though far away flock of geese. With help from Peter Nichols, I ID'd both blue and white morph Snow Geese from photos (Thanks!), but there might could be some GWFG or Ross's in there as well.
Here's a link to my video: https://youtu.be/Ztdyx7hZNfw The digiscoped video quality is not so great, because of the distance, high winds, optics, and videographer. PLEASE NOTE: If you are sensitive, watching the video might induce nausea. There are some highly cropped photos in my eBird post as well: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28734772 Does 1,000 seem like a fair estimate? Do you see anything other than Snow Geese? You can see the whole enormous cloud of birds at the beginning of the video, before I attached my phone to my scope. It was an awesome experience to see that whirling, swirling cloud of noisy birds. Joe Lindell ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
