When photographing swarms of grackles, I highly recommend wearing machine washable clothing. And a hat.
Several hundred landed in a parking lot very near where I was shooting. Most were on the ground, but a few dozen were on top of a rather unfortunate car. And, there were thousands in the surrounding trees.
Exposure0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperturef/3.2
Focal Length50 mm
ISO Speed3200
Exposure Bias-0.7 EV
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David Dillhoff photography 9 months ago | reply
WOW!
• ian 3 months ago | reply
Wonderful capture. Amazing.
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LillianB 3 months ago | reply
We get clouds like that a lot on the UT campus in Austin. The campus newspaper makes an adequate umbrella when walking under Grackle trees...
holloway steve 3 months ago | reply
Quite a sight