Snow Geese Swarming
by Elizabeth Winter
Title
Snow Geese Swarming
Artist
Elizabeth Winter
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge is located in northwestern Missouri within the historic Missouri River floodplain. The 7,350-acre refuge was established in 1935 as a resting, feeding, and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife. Many of the original facilities were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s.
The principal refuge habitats are seasonal and semipermanent wetlands, native warm and cool season grasslands, woodlands, and croplands. The refuge includes loess bluff hills, unusual geologic formations caused by wind-deposited soil, where remnants of the once-vast native prairie still exist.
Squaw Creek is best known for its large concentrations of snow geese, other waterfowl, and bald eagles. The refuge is a major stop-over for waterfowl, with more than one-half million birds in the fall and lesser, but still spectacular, numbers in the spring. The refuge is within the Mississippi Flyway.
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March 6th, 2013
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Comments (57)
Petra Koehler Rose
Wow, that's an impressive shot. Her pictures are breathtakingly beautiful. Each picture is unique. You are a great photo artist.
Yvonne Nowicka-Wright
Amazing shot, to the point of an abstract with all these geese swarming about.
Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
Amazing image Elizabeth. Must be fantastic to see it :-) (F/L)
Mick Anderson
This is such a cool capture!! I have not been to eastern Oregon yet where scenes like this exist -- but now I must travel there!! :) Excellent work, Elizabeth!! :) F/V
Jack Zulli
Something with so much wonder and very few get the opportunity to experience! Great capture, Elizabeth!!! v/f