Yesterday, on my way home...

[nwhiker]

I took forever in the lab yesterday. I forgot that when you're working with someone else, things might not be in the exact order you left them, and had to re-do an experiment.

Anyhow. As I was driving down I5, past Mt Vernon, in the Skagit Valley, home of the Tulip Festival (I wonder if it's happening this year), I noticed a field to the West covered in white.

Birds. Snowgeese.

Got off at the next exit and doubled back on the frontage road.

I only had my phone, so the photos aren't great.

After I'd been there a few minutes, some Prowlers from the Whidbey Island Naval Base flew overhead and a good portion of the flock of birds flew up, in an incredible noise of wings and honking, and settled back down 50 meters to the south. Whatever, birds.



A crop from that same image:



I don't quite know how to embed video, but here's a link to one of the ones I took: A bit further to the south....

Comments

[camelsamba]

My response to the video: "Wow. That's a LOT of birds!"