Is this the farthest capture...ever?

Camera is a Covert Black 60.

Here are the pics (In order #315-319):












That flock of birds has to be at least 100 if not more yards away. Incredible if you ask me.

 

I don't know a lot about these cameras, but I think it was the wind catching the corn/ grass and if it was not windy that day then I'd say that it was a smaller bird or something that flew close by and the camera missed somehow. That's just my opinion though. If it was actually the flock, then that is crazy.

 

Not that I'm doubting you (ok, I am), but I would be more inclined to say something else either triggered it in the foreground, but was out of the frame by the time the shot took place (SQUIRREL!), of maybe the corn blowing. Do you get a lot of empty frame shots at this site?

 

This sounds about right. It really would be something I it was the flock.

 

Back in the day, my 35mm Camtrakker would pick up vehicles more than 100 yards way. This attracted the attention of a county sheriff who snuck up on the camera after he became suspicious of the flash he saw as he drove by. :D

If that covert picked up the geese (or whatever those are) that would be amazing.

When I put my covert in the garden to catch pictures of sweet corn thieving coyotes, house sparrows would trigger the camera (had it on the highest sensitivity). They had to be fairly close to the camera to trigger it but being that there are 14 trillion sparrows out here, I quickly got a card full of sparrow pics. LOL

 

Could be. Bet that spots good in the fall.

 

BTW Siman.....

 

I dont think they set it off though

 

I know. 2 weeks in a row the tree i had it on got blown so hard that the strap loosened up. The problem has been fixed for good.

 

I know it would be incredible, yes. The reason that it "could" be the birds is the # sequence, if the wind is blowing then i would most definitely would have got more then just 3 pictures (thats what usually happens when the wind triggers it).

Could it be something quick? Yes of course, just a weird coincidence that the only living thing in the frame is the moving flock of birds.

 

To bad the camera is now broken..... certainly that last pic did it in..

 

I'll say it was the wind blowing the corn or something outside the FOV that triggered the cam.

 

I saw this one recently on a company's FB page. It also looks good, but I suspect something zipped through the foreground.

-Bill

 

Yowzers!

 

This.

Blessings........Pastorjim

 

That's pretty bad@ss! Can't say I've heard many people gettin commercial jet liners on cam!!

It'd be sick if it was the birds, but I'm goin with it caught somethin else

 

Amazing catch! Very Interesting!