Birdland by CoreyBlack
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Description
Chicago, for all of its problems--and there are plenty--has a wonderful public parks system. In addition to numerous neighborhood green spaces, the entire 30 mile lakefront is one giant park: hudreds of thousands of acres for the city to play in and the glories of Lake Michigan as well. There are many beautiful spots, and some not-so-beautiful ones along the way, but one of the nicer, more contemplative, is the Magic Hedge Bird Sanctuary at Montrose Point. You can stand anywhere in the general area and see all manner of avian life coming, going, going on something, or simply hanging around. It's a birdwatcher's paradise. As with the rest of the park, the mood changes from season to season.
When I made this picture in February of 2008, the land was in its deepest winter guise: cold, blanketed in snow, quiet as a library, and all but deserted of human life. As I trudged through the knee-deep snow, determined to get shots of the frozen lake, I was startled by a mass of geese exploding through the trees. With frozen fingers, I wrestled the camera out of my parka and caught the last of them.
I don't know if I scared them away, or if they all had an important meeting to attend, elsewhere.
Comments (10)
beachzz
I think they look very business like, so I'm sure they had a meeting!! I love these stark winter shots!!
watapki66
Wonderful capture!
Chipka
This is really nice. It's clean and crisp and elegant. It's funny because I know these are geese but some of them--the ones near the bottom of the open sky--look almost like swallows. Okay, big swallows. That overcast really provides a good "canvas" for this picture. And for as much as I love dramatic skies, I'm happy that nature provided a boring one because it really adds a stark, clean, crisp quality to this image. It's one of those perfect shots that comes along every once in a while. Oh, and yeah...judging by the date you gave for when you took this, I can definitely say that you didn't scare them. They were heading to that convention on the roof of McCormick Place.
durleybeachbum
What a great shot! I never realised your city had so much open space..that makes it more appealing!
jmb007
superbe photo!!
sandra46
excellent image, great shot!!! i love the bleak mood and the birds going somewhere, maybe very far from there, maybe only a few buildings away...
auntietk
I think they just all flew off like that because they knew you had a camera. Either that or they were about to practice on you like that bunch at the Museum Complex practiced on Marilyn! LOL! Whatever the reason for their hasty departure, the resulting image is excellent.
flavia49
majestic picture!
rainbows
A wonderful image, so good to read your write up too. Diane.
myrrhluz
I like the clean crispness of it too. The geese and branches are beautiful against the blue-grey sky. What were the geese saying as they took off? "Blasted humans!" or "Anyone know when the brunch starts?" If it was the former, I think you scared them away. Either way, you got a wonderful shot!