Photography Kevin Fleming on 22 Nov 2007 01:05 pm
four and twenty blackbirds
When you are photographing a year in the life of wild Delaware you need to catch what wildlife is here at the moment. Sometimes it seems like I’m shooting a bird book rather than a book that will include everything from underwater life in ponds to deer and landscapes. But the birds are here now so that’s what I’m shooting. In the spring blackbirds, starlings and grackles pair up and nest then late every summer they begin to gather in the very large flocks that are so common in Delaware in the fall and winter. These blackbirds were gathering on powerlines at dusk just before settling into a tree for the night.
And at Prime Hook National Wildlife refuge it was autumn business as usual as the snow geese rise with the sun on Thanksgiving morning.
