Snow Geese TakeOff At BWR

Posted on February 22, 2017

It was a Good Day for Snow Geese last weekend at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. This image is just a quite small section of the flock taking off. I was using a 400mm lens with a 1.4X teleconverter so with the Snow Geese not that far away, I was only getting smaller areas of the huge wave of Snow Geese taking flight. I had not seen them there for quite a few years. So when I saw large amounts on the Blackwater bird count list we went to see what we could find. There was a huge gathering on Snow Geese right off the Wildlife Drive. Actually one of the largest flocks I had seen at Blackwater. It was interesting in that when they took off in mass, they kinda went up mad a circle and landed again. So we saw about 4 or 5 “Lift-Offs” in a couple of hours.

Category: Birds, Blackwater NWR, Cambridge MD, Blog, Favorite Locations, Nature Still Lifes, Wildlife Tagged: Blackwater NWR, Blackwater Snow Geese, Snow Geese, Snow Geese Blast Off, Snow Geese in flight

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Snow Geese

Posted on December 31, 2016

I was going through some external hard disks and found some images I had not worked on. For this post I am using Snow Geese images taken at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge taken in November a few years ago. There used to be flocks of thousands of Snow Geese in the Winter months at Blackwater NWR but in recent years they have moved to different locations. The noise of thousands of Snow Geese squawking as they take off or land in huge flocks is amazing. These photos are of a lone pair coming in for a landing.

A different group of birds flew by as I was shooting the above Snow Geese – 3 Marine FA-18s.

Category: Birds, Blog, Wildlife Tagged: Blackwater NWR, canon 400mm f/4 DO, Canon Series III Teleconverters, Snow Geese, Snow Geese in flight

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Snow Geese Taking Flight

Posted on November 28, 2015

We found a large flock of snow Geese at the Brigantine division of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. From our first vantage point they were far away, but the sun was behind us. So we moved down the wildlife drive to get closer to the other end of the flock. There were probably thousands of Snow Geese in the water. When we got closer to the far end of the flock we were shooting into the lowering sun so we were getting an interesting warm color to our shots. All of a sudden the hundreds on the end by us took off across the lowering sun.