BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight

Subject: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 May 14 - 04:43 PM

I finally managed to download a YouTube video while preserving a little anonymity. I lost my gmail account in the process, but who cares about that?

The video shows thousands of snow geese departing a wildlife refuge in Missouri, heading for Canada.   The roaring sound you hear is all of them calling excitedly to one another. It's an amazing, stirring sight.

The video could be better, but it's the best one available. Other people shot theirs from moving cars! (That doesn't work.)


now departing

Thanks to Mudcatters who helped me struggled through the protocols at YouTube.

Subject: RE: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 May 14 - 05:39 PM

What an amazing sight... Thank you for posting it!

Subject: RE: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 May 14 - 09:17 PM

Whoa! I put that one on full screen, something I rarely do! I think I heard them saying, "Hey! It's time to go! Let's get a move on!"

Subject: RE: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 May 14 - 09:17 PM

Glad you like it!

Subject: RE: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: gnu
Date: 02 May 14 - 09:42 PM

WOW!

Subject: RE: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: GUEST,michaelr
Date: 02 May 14 - 09:47 PM

What an awesome sight. Thanks for sharing!

Subject: RE: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: Janie
Date: 02 May 14 - 09:49 PM

Wow is right!

Subject: RE: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 May 14 - 02:22 AM

another wow! poor quality or not it is an amazing scene

good luck with being in the same place some other time when zillions of birds are moving.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: our first youtube. a stirring sight
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 May 14 - 03:59 PM

It's good to hear from you all.

The geese in the video are just some of the 1.2 million estimated to be on the refuge at that time. Snow geese mate for life, and I think the honking is the sound of thousands of pairs keeping track of one another as the great mass of similar-looking birds takes off.

It stirs my heart.