Last of the geese shots…
Mukawa March 2024 #54
Tag: Bean Goose
Mukawa March 2024 #51
Taiga or Tundra? Struggling a bit here…
Mukawa March 2024 #35
More geese in dodgy light…
Mukawa March 2024 #16
There were 4/5 species; Cackling, Greater White-fronted, Snow and Taiga/Tundra Bean…
Not sure which of the latter this ones is TBH.
A grey old Monday
There were some Harlequin Ducks at Sawara but not much else…
Onuma was a bit better although no decent photos sadly. there were at least 3 White-tailed Eagles, a pair of Black Woodpecker, Whooper and Bewick’s Swans, Bean Geese and Smew…
Late Winter Trip 2023 #13
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…
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #5
I took way too many BIFs…
I still have never really got the hang of flock shots.
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #2
Taiga Bean Goose were everywhere…
And there were decent numbers of Cackling Goose too.
Late Winter Trip 2022 Day 5 #9
I only saw 1 Bean Goose (Taiga I think) amongst the main flocks in Mukawa. There was a flock of them a few miles east but they were impossible to get close enough to photograph.
There were also quite a few swans. Not photogenic in the harsh spring sunshine. Mainly Whoopers but I found at least 1 Bewick’s.
The nearest I could get to a comparison shot:
A short trip out east
I was surprised to see this lone Bean Goose in the same place I’d seen 3 Greater White-fronts last month…
A pretty quiet day, the local Steller’s flew around a bit but up high and it was not especially photogenic today.
Only female Harlequins in camera range again…
A late autumn trip #10
(Taiga?) Bean Geese were also common in Urahoro….
A late autumn trip #9
On the second say we couldn’t get near the Snow Geese…
They are very easy to pick out among the Grey Geese, as you can see here:
Greater White-fronted Geese are generally the most numerous species near Hakodate but this is not the case in Urahoro. Here are some adults and juveniles together.
