“BIF” = birds in flight. (Used if either too busy or too cool to spell it out, like the staff of BirdingPI.com.) Also a Hardy Boys’ character.
Anyway, some recent BIF!
First, RTH over Millcreek Twp (“Gateway to Presque Isle”). (RTH = Red-tailed Hawk. Twp = Township.)
Next, what appears to be GC over PI! (GC = Gray Catbird! PI = Presque Isle.) Taken at a very long distance over TCS/P (Thompson Circle swamp/pond) = not super sharp, still cool.
Where are those Catbirds
going? Only the Catbirds
know with certainty.
Lots of EKB (Eastern Kingbird) at PI this year. Shots of feeding behavior over Thompson Bay – fly, then flap to ‘hover’ over a spot until catching an insect:
