Snow Geese Flight

by Judi Dressler

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Snow Geese Flight

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Judi Dressler

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Thousands of Snow Geese winter over at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. Here, three are taking off from one of the large ponds to head over to the corn fields. You can see blurred shapes of many geese still in the pond in the background.

It was cloudy and still early and rather dark, so it was impossible to get a fast enough shutter speed to stop the wings in a flight shot of these Snow Geese.. So I decided to try some panning with slow shutter speeds. I love how this one came out, and how you can see the motion blur in the wings as well as in the background.

From Cornell Lab's website: "Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent."

Photo taken on December 5, 2017, at Bosque del Apache NWR, NM

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