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  • Jan 14, 2021 at 7:33 pm #3693839
    Ian
    BPL Member

    @discopants

    Snow geese McNary Wildlife Refuge

    Jan 14, 2021 at 7:57 pm #3693842
    d k
    BPL Member

    @dkramalc

    Cool shot!

    Jan 14, 2021 at 8:33 pm #3693845
    Ian
    BPL Member

    @discopants

    Thanks.  They bounce around here quite a bit before they continue their migration.  I gather they will hang out here at night and then fly out in the morning to nearby feeding grounds.  This was really early in the morning so I had to push the ISO quite a bit.  I know of one field they feed in.  I’ll drive down there later this week and see if I can catch them in better light.

    Jan 14, 2021 at 8:46 pm #3693848
    rubmybelly!
    BPL Member

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Yes, a cool shot. They looked so packed tightly together, it’s a wonder they don’t all crash into each other,

    Jan 15, 2021 at 7:49 am #3693886
    Dan Y
    BPL Member

    @zelph2

    Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge in Illinois, snow geese migration

    Pelicans at Emiquon

    Jan 15, 2021 at 8:01 am #3693889
    W I S N E R !
    BPL Member

    @xnomanx

    Cool shot Ian.

    Jan 15, 2021 at 8:17 am #3693892
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    nice pics both of you

    I see geese out my window.  I’ll have to try to get a shot.  Cool watching them day to day.

    Jan 15, 2021 at 9:00 am #3693910
    Ian
    BPL Member

    @discopants

    Thanks all.

    Nice photos Dan.

    If you’ve never seen them IRL, the racket they make is comical.  I can’t see the slough from the parking lot but as soon as I stepped out of my vehicle, “yup… they’re here.”  You can hear them from miles away.

    Soft light = soft images.  That’s why I only kept this shot from over 100.  It’s far enough away that sharp detail isn’t critical.  Optimally if there was better lighting I would’ve stopped down more to have more depth of field, but the sun was just rising and I needed all the light I could gather.

    Sun is supposed to cut through the clouds today at noon.  I hope to drive to another refuge in Oregon this afternoon with the hopes of finding them at one of their feeding grounds.

     

    Jan 15, 2021 at 9:09 am #3693911
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    ” the racket they make is comical”

    yeah

    or maybe cacophony : )

    Jan 15, 2021 at 2:48 pm #3693981
    Ian
    BPL Member

    @discopants

    Perhaps a ruckus

    Jan 15, 2021 at 3:43 pm #3693997
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    internet synonym generator

    Jan 15, 2021 at 7:22 pm #3694032
    Ian
    BPL Member

    @discopants

    Make sure the sound is on

     

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CKFmkogHo67/?igshid=bsz0g1lw3yfd

    Jan 15, 2021 at 8:33 pm #3694042
    rubmybelly!
    BPL Member

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Neat!

    Jan 16, 2021 at 6:45 am #3694064
    Kelly C
    BPL Member

    @drsolarmolar-2

    Packed tight like this they do crash into each other.  Predators will run after large groups of snow geese that have landed and in their panic to take off the geese collide.  It’s not uncommon for a goose or two to suffer a broken wing in the melee and become an easy meal.

    Jan 18, 2021 at 1:39 pm #3694402
    Ian
    BPL Member

    @discopants

    That’s not hard to imagine Kelly.  I had been sitting in the blind for over a half hour before this shot, so it wasn’t like they were spooked, or at least spooked by me.  It seems like their MO when taking off for the feeding grounds for the day is to raise holy hell and chaos as they depart the slough.

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