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What are your largest flocks? (1 Viewer)
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razorsharp
For the Laugh
Many thousands of golden plovers and of course, starlings.
Gillian_M
Birding since 2006!
Canada Geese, and more Canada Geese. I was photographing a Cackling Goose with some Canadas on a park lawn near the Ottawa River last weekend (see my blog!) when all of a sudden all the Canada Geese on the river suddenly took to the air and started flying south. There must have been a couple thousand of them. For some reason, none of the birds on the lawn flew away.
I've also seen huge flocks of red-winged blackbirds in the agricultural & conservation areas south of the city and hundreds of roosting gulls on the river. It's fun picking out the Great Black-backed gulls out of all the Ring-bills.
I've also seen huge flocks of red-winged blackbirds in the agricultural & conservation areas south of the city and hundreds of roosting gulls on the river. It's fun picking out the Great Black-backed gulls out of all the Ring-bills.
birderbf
Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
Tree Swallows kettle in 5-8,000 individual flocks around here. I once a saw an endless flock of scaup fly by (estimated 8-10,000). I have also seen a few thousand Canada Geese on the ground at Blackwater NWR, in Maryland. Noisiest flock was at Jamaica Bay in New York recently: Mute Swans. Only a few dozen, but when they take off it's like a huge audience suddenly starts applauding.
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