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Hundreds of migrating Snow Geese, come all the way from the Arctic if I'm not mistaken. I made many observations of them so I'll just write notes on this one.

This was a really incredible experience to see all of these birds congregating and flying gracefully. Migration is something I've never given much thought to, and I haven't really ever gone out searching for migrating species before.

The snow geese almost appeared to be heading straight for us at one point, and they were incredibly, INCREDIBLY loud.

So, funny story with this squirrel. A few seconds after I spotted it, it looked me in the eyes, and promptly did a backflip like a foot into the air. I didn't get a picture of it, sadly, but it was a very interesting thing to witness play out in real time.

Trying out a camera my grandfather gave me, and it's pretty decent so far!

[Later notes: edited at 7:57 PM, same day] A few hours after I saw this heron around my house, which is really unusual since I've never seen one flying overhead or even close to this area, a bunch of horrible weather, the remnants of Hurricane Ida struck a lot of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. There were multiple tornado warnings (and also flash flood warnings) around the area and there's been a lot of heavy downpour as well. I have a slight theory that this heron, unusual to this specific area, was fleeing the area, knowing bad weather and flying conditions were soon to strike. I've read articles and heard theories in the past about animals detecting natural disasters like hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, and the like, hours before they actually happen. Haven't heard of a wild heron doing it before, though. Maybe it detected it through air currents or something, I'm not an expert in the weather and weather/wildlife field, but it's just a fun little theory to think about.