I have been picking up swarms of mosquitos at 5500ft this year.
That is a first.
I often see Blue Herons at 4500 ft.
Seems like every year they are getting higher.

Tony
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Tony Roberts
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Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article ,
Judah wrote:

What's the highest altitude that you ever saw a bird swoop past your plane?

The other day I was flying at 5000' MSL, over land that was mostly about
1000' (so 4000' AGL) and saw a flock of birds, hawks of some sort I think,
one of which came close enough to make me quite nervous (although from the
way he was flapping I think he was much more nervous than I was).

I don't think I've ever seen birds above 3000' MSL / 2500' AGL or so before
and I was pretty surprised...

Do birds typically stay low, or have I just been lucky until now?