Very autumnal in Hakodate. Some birds around too: 3 Great Egret on the river near my place as well as Brown Dipper, Grey Wagtail and Hawfinch. Lots of common ducks around as well.
And the winter gulls are here…
Back in town
Category: Wildfowl
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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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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.
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We had a few days in the Urahoro area last week…
It’s a well-known stopping-off point for several species of goose. The most interesting species is Snow Goose, there were (I’d estimate) over 1000 of them.
Lots of juveniles too, surely a good sign.
