To use an example, a raft of wigeons on Skagit Bay is quickly redefined as a
flock when a Bald Eagle flies their direction.

Bob Sundstrom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Mackie" <jmackie at cc.wwu.edu>
To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: flocks and rafts


> How about: rafts float, flocks fly? And for me, it has to do with water
and
> land. Flocks forage. And, it also has to do with numbers and place. A
large
> flock on open water is a raft. And, a raucous flock of medium sized, black
> corvids is a murder of crows.
>
> Joe Mackie
> jmackie at cc.wwu.edu
> Bellingham
>