
Yeah, friend’s of my parents used to live close to the corridor they went through and would go take pictures almost every year. They stopped doing it because they had to travel farther and farther, and it was just all around harder to find the big migratory groups. They did this from the mid 70’s til the early 2010s.



my personal view of this is that, as phones became something people were on all the time, regardless of what they happened to be doing, more people started using speaker because they are often doing multiple things at once, or need to pay better attention to what is happening around them. I believe that hands free units in cars have also played a part normalizing just using speaker phone, especially when needing to pay attention to what is happening around them in public.