Tag: Snow Goose

I didn’t get many Snow Goose photos on the ground: I managed a few so-so ones just as the sun was going down.

Shame I didn’t get to see them in some actual snow though……………

The weather on the second afternoon was much better and there were even some blue skies.

Snow Geese and Cackling Geese are both pretty scarce down here Hakodate do it was nice to see them together.

Snow Geese are a particularly striking species.

Some more Snow Geese from the second day……………

Even if the weather was lousy and poor for photography it was still great watching the Snow Geese which were very active……………..

There were several hundred of them: this species breeds on Wrangel Island and that is where most (or all) these birds originate from. The Obihiro area in Hokkaido is a well-known staging post for them. Some will fly south to Honshu and some to Korea for the winter……………

We were in Tokachi last week looking for geese. I wanted to photograph Snow Geese. They were easy enough to find but the weather on the first day we arrived was awful: driving torrential rain, high winds and very dark. Terrible conditions for photograhy especially with my old APS-C sensor. Most of these BIF shots were taken from the car window.