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Observation details

I have never seen this many SNGO here before- today was an absolutely stunning show. There are at least three times as many birds as I saw here yesterday. The following images are almost all taken in entirely separate areas and directions from each other. I first counted by thousands until I thought I knew what 10,000 looked like, and then I started counting by 10,000s until I gave up somewhere around 1.8 million-with two more pools to go. This is absolutely a massive underestimate though. After living in Missouri many years I'd never seen this many here. Between 3:30pm and 4:30pm is when the biggest numbers were present. Birds started pouring to the north in unbelievable flocks around 5:00 pm. I can't believe the two day difference. I think I only estimated about 700,000 yesterday morning.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Lens

150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary 015

ISO

800

Focal length

600 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/11.0

Shutter speed

1/1250 sec

Dimensions

3446 pixels x 2298 pixels

Original file size

1.9 MB