Birds at Altitude

"Judah" wrote in message

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

I hit a bird one night at 9500 over Long Island sound in a 402.
Clarification: I presume it was a bird - I saw nothing, just heard a very
loud BANG as something caromed off the windshield.

I once shared a thermal with a red tail hawk up to 5000 MSL. I was on one side
of thermal and he was on the other side. I always wonder about that. Could he
go as fast as I was or could I go as slow as he was?

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:47:40 -0400, "John Gaquin"
wrote:


"Judah" wrote in message

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

I hit a bird one night at 9500 over Long Island sound in a 402.
Clarification: I presume it was a bird - I saw nothing, just heard a very
loud BANG as something caromed off the windshield.



GeorgeC

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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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?

tony roberts wrote in news:nospam-08E735.21401414102006
@shawnews:

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

Must be from Global Warming.