A Merl of Yellow-headed Blackbirds by Mike Stobbs

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30-Aug-2017	Mike Stobbs

A Merl of Yellow-headed Blackbirds

A group of blackbirds has many collective nouns, including a "cloud", "cluster", and "merl" of blackbirds.
This group of all males was in the hundreds flocking to migrate south.

Nikon D4 ,Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/160s f/8.0 at 200.0mm iso100 full exif

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pkocinski		31-Aug-2017 12:06
Wow - what a find!

globalgadabout		30-Aug-2017 23:25
an astonishing sight...glad to learn the word 'merl' too...

Ed Preston		30-Aug-2017 22:26
WOW, great capture!

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