Fall Photos From JoAnne

[Henry]

Hi Henry,
 
Todays pictures:


This morning's sunrise.  (Heard about this sunrise Jo, but wasn't up to see it.)


My pumpkin crop from my small patch.


 I am still getting tomatoes fairly regularly.


Blackbirds are beginning to flock together on the utility lines.

Thanks Jo - Great Photos as usual.

[Sue W.]

Amazing photos!  Thanks for sharing.  I tried to get one of the sunrise but  didn't do it justice.  I was unusal and gorgeous.

[ASDuling]

That was an amazing sunrise! You really did capture the glowing sky well.
Thanks for the photos!

[edakrupp]

FYI When birds gather together in the Fall right before their migration its called 'Rafting' probably because once they are in flight they look like a huge raft floating in the air.

[Suzy]

Thanks for sharing the photos and the information about "rafting."  That's really interesting, I had never heard about rafting, but have certainly seen a lot of it going on here lately!  Gorgeous photos! 
Sooz

[Rev. Elizabeth]

it is quite possible that those  black birds are starlings.  They like to gather in crowds, clatter together in trees, and then descend on a field looking for food.  I have watched them blacken a dead elm on the edge of the road with their presence, and filling the air with an assortment of chirps and whistles --a real cacophony of bird talk.