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…
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #13
Tag: Snow Goose
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #10
I stayed until it got too dark for photos…
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #9
It was difficult to get shots of birds on their own…
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #8
Snow Geese numbers are increasing every year it seems…
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #7
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…
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #6
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.
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #5
I took way too many BIFs…
I still have never really got the hang of flock shots.
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #4
Blue skies last week…
Tokachi Autumn 2022 #1
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.
Late Winter Trip 2022 Day 5 #10
We were able to relocated the 2 Snow Geese but they were a little far off and the light was brutal: white birds on hazy warmish sunshine over snowy surfaces.
Late Winter Trip 2022 Day 5 #5
Day 5 was very bright and sunny and the fields were still under snow, at around midday I gave up taking photos for a while as the light was way too harsh (a problem at various times on this trip). I was also a little tired of White-fronts…
At this time 2 Snow Geese decided to fly over, these shots were massively overexposed.
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.
