Monday, November 26, 2018

Fallouts

This great-blue heron was having a nice sunny day of it at Davis Dock on Boone Lake. He didn’t seem particularly in a hurry to feed and the several ducks around him were ignored. Two days before, we’d just had an early snow/rain mix blow through on the trailing edge of the winter’s first severe snow storm on the east coast.

The result was an event called a “fallout” where a storm meets flocks of birds causing the birds, mainly waterfowl, to drop down to our lakes to ride out the storm and rest. The thing of it is, as early as the next day, given a clear enough sky, they’re gone!

This fallout was of record proportion. I wish I’d been there. We are fortunate in being in the path of the migration and having large enough lakes to be inviting and accommodating.
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