February 17 - March 14, 2009 Squaw Creek NWR
A Ton of Snow Geese - 1.2 Million Max Page 2
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Before sunrise on the 24th. If the light is still low enough you can get some fun shots with varying longer shutters of a second or so.
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Here comes a wave.
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It's a lot easier to shoot these when it's not 10F and windy! This place freezes and thaws so easily. One night of 10F and the completely open waters will be 90% frozen the next morning. It's really shallow, not sure how much so, but I kind of doubt it's 5 feet deep anywhere.
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Different morning as evident by the fact it is frozen again. March 4th now on this one. I think the count was down to 500,000 on the 2nd.
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March 4th still. This was surely the sickest wave action I'd seen. The amount of birds in the air was nuts. Two massive flocks were converging with the bigger coming from the left.
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You get the idea. You can only take so many mass of snow geese pictures before it is onto something else. The last few days there I was essentially taking zero of that. They were only doing this when eagles were harassing them, which was most every day.
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