Can you spot the Red Winged Blackbirds?
Thought I'd post this one just for something a little different - more for what you can't see in the picture, even though they're there.
There was a very large flock (several hundred probably) of red winged blackbirds out at Roberts Bank the afternoon that I took this.
They were dividing their time between the lighter coloured taller field on the right, and the marsh/reeds behind me on the other side of the pathway (which is on the dike) that I was standing on when I took this shot.
What's neat is there were probably 150-200 birds in the field at the time I took this shot but you can't see any of them as they're down in the grass hiding from predators and having a snack on all the seeds. Whenever a group of people walked along the path, specially if they had a dog, the birds would flee the grass en-masse - over top of the 'dangerous' people - in favour of the reeds. A few minutes later they would start to return to the grass, 5-20 at a time, until the next 'threat' walked by.
I actually got a couple of shots of the sky thick with the exodus to the reeds, but I wasn't very happy with the shots for technical reasons so thought I'd post this one instead.
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Kendall
at
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Labels: 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L, 5D, birds, Roberts Bank
1 comments:
Wow, this would have been very cool to watch.
Very good trick photography hiding all those birds :)
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