Last year at this time I was returning from a trip to New Mexico. The focus of the trip was to photograph the sandhill crane and snow geese migration. But there were plenty of other subjects as well, including a few red-winged blackbirds as seen in this photo. Any guesses as to how many birds are in this photo? I have no idea and am not about to try to count! These birds were the background to a few hundred sandhill cranes that were feeding in a field. At the same time, thousands of snow and ross’s geese began to arrive as well. Imagine the sounds of so many birds all coming to feed in the same general area.