Flickr Lounge: lots and lots

A large flock of red-winged blackbirds and grackles takes flight in early spring. I love the way some wings flash yellow and some red (the two colors on their epaulets) . . . and some combine the colors into orange!

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green heron launches into flight over a stream

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Not at all the classic hummingbird shot, but the shape of this ruby-throated hummingbird taking off from a branch is in focus here.

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Newly molted and with their young flying among them for the first time, a flock of Canada geese circles in the air.

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A pair of migrating sandhill cranes flies over the treetops in early spring. Pokagon State Park, northeastern Indiana.

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