Field guide No. 918

A flock of small birds crosses a bright white plain beneath one enormous bird-shaped shadow. The ground has made its own prediction.

Starlings and a giant bird shadow

A shadow large enough for a flock

A flock of small birds crosses a bright white plain beneath one enormous bird-shaped shadow. The ground has made its own prediction.

Field noteA flock crosses a salt plain beneath an enormous bird-shaped shadow. The larger bird has stayed out of frame.

Specimen
No. 918
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
A bright white plain.
Nearest existing relative
A flock of birds.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking scale