may just have been in an area where the birds were feeding? I have been in that situation before. None of them were approaching my drone and were clearly feeding in my case.
Yeah, that is possible. It was really cool being up there with them, kinda scary too though, I was afraid one of them was just gonna fly into my drone and I would have to stand there and watch it fall out of the sky.
I had Purple Martins swarm around my drone in two locations earlier this summer. They seemed very curious. No aggression at all.
Awesome, it is so cool to see them flying around your drone, they are probably very confused and think it's the terminator but bird version.
Yeah, I know they probably wouldn't fly into it, especially birds that size, but still, just the thought of it is not pleasant.
I did video it, the link is in my original post. Although, it's not the best shots, I'm still new, as you can probably tell, and am still trying to figure out exactly how to get good shots and all that good stuff.
Interesting, and yes, this is in North Carolina. Maybe next time I should join their flock and take off with them.
I'm pretty sure that Venezuela is beyond a credible VLOS distance.
Agreed, swallows. They can eat their weight in mosquitoes everyday, at least that’s what I heard.
I had heard that about Purple Martins all my life and I looked into it about 20 years ago after reading an article about how Purple Martins weren't such good birds after all. They apparently keep other year-round bird species out of the area when the Martins are here in nesting in spring and summer. The author also suggested that they weren't so effective at eating mosquitos. I found out that a research paper from the 40s was what the "weight in mosquitos every day" claim was based on. It turns out that the researchers measured stomach contents and found that the birds ate their weight in insects every day. But many of the insects weren't mosquitos. Dragonflies (which eat mosquitos) were a substantial part of their diet.
