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?


I just flew past an eagle at 12,400 msl yesterday, This was about 5700
agl AGL. I see and watch for them up there all the time. The migration
for flocks of birds are starting this month too but they usually cruise
southbound at 9000 msl or so.

Ben
Jackson Hole Wy