The last day with the geese didn’t yield many memorable photos…
But there were at least 2 adult blue phase Snow Geese and 1 (maybe 2) juveniles too.
Heavy crop here…
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A rare melanistic Red Fox from last week…
Apart from geese there were lots of Japanese Crane and flocks of Buff-bellied Pipit in the fields.
Raptors included distant Merlin and Hen Harrier as well as several White-tailed Eagles (the latter are probably resident in the area).
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On the nearby coast there were a few winter gulls, lots of Black-necked and Great Crested Grebes, a few common ducks, some Greenshank and 1 or 2 White-tailed Eagles.
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I stayed until it got too dark for photos…
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It was difficult to get shots of birds on their own…
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Snow Geese numbers are increasing every year it seems…
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It was pretty dark in the late afternoon and most of these shots were high ISO. There were so many shots to go through I was too lazy to denoise them in Topaz…
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Most of the time the geese were either in the middle of a big field, roosting on water or flying around.
But on the second afternoon the main flock (almost all Snow and Cackling Geese) came to a sweetcorn field of stubble right by the side of the road and I was the only person there.
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I took way too many BIFs…
I still have never really got the hang of flock shots.
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Blue skies last week…
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We were focusing on the geese but the same area is also home to a large number of cranes…
And in addition to the geese there were lots of Whooper Swans…
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Taiga Bean Goose were everywhere…
And there were decent numbers of Cackling Goose too.
