I took a few crossbill shots and moved quickly on…
They come in a lot of hues.
In among the White-fronts up above there were a few Cackling Geese. Crappy record shot but a Hakodate tick! 4 of them in this heavy crop; the ones with the white cheeks.
More geese in dodgy light…
These 2 species are very scarce near Hakodate…
There were 4/5 species; Cackling, Greater White-fronted, Snow and Taiga/Tundra Bean…
Not sure which of the latter this ones is TBH.
Cackling Geese were the second most numerous species in the flock…
There were a few Bean Geese with the White-fronts. Some were a bit small like this one, think it might be a Tundra Bean Goose?
Quite a lot of Cackling Goose…
And a handful of Snow Geese…
I stayed until it got too dark for photos…
It was difficult to get shots of birds on their own…
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…
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.
I took way too many BIFs…
I still have never really got the hang of flock shots.
Taiga Bean Goose were everywhere…
And there were decent numbers of Cackling Goose too.
