We love to see how the birds start to change their formation for the long flights.
They don't come over every day, as it all depends on the weather and the wind strength, but I can get them on some nice warm days when the wind is not too strong. I have posted some birds changing the v shape before, and this occasion it was recent. Without fail, on fair weather days they will fly in a north to south direction, and I suppose that is to enable them to cross the lower parts of the mountain.
Their flight times also change according to the weather, when they will fly earlier or later. So, round about 6pm-8pm is the best possible time to get them. At 8pm it is still light as the sun has set at around 7:45pm in summer. In winter the times change, as they come over earlier. On rainy days they don't appear. The same applies to extremely windy days. So, overtime I have taken shots of seagulls, geese, and ibises flying in v-formations.
I watched them coming and they were in a perfect v-formation shape.
However, as they drew closer, the formation started to change.
They were lining up for the second part of their flight, and normally it is a longer part or stage.
Slowly they started to do the v-formation again.
I put on extra zoom to get the ones at the front, and it looked like they were geese, but I can't be sure.
And there they went, in perfect formation again.
Soon after, a Cormorant came over, and cormorants never fly in v shapes because they are solo flyers.
An interesting event started to take place from Monday. Remember that I said in a previous post that we feel that Autumn will come earlier, but a freak heatwave started to appear. According to the weatherman it will last for the next two weeks. Temperatures in the high 40Cs further inland and on the far west coast. We are constantly in the high 30Cs, and the sun seems to have decided to take revenge on us.
Our folks, far up north, complained about the heat, and now they are complaining about the cold as the heatwave has moved down here. Strange how life works as we as humans can always find something to complain about. Lol.
The weather is mad across the world, as it seems that the same is happening everywhere. We read of landslides, earthquakes, floods, volcanos, and frightening storms. But nothing that we can do about it.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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