Light of Dawn
by Elizabeth Winter
Title
Light of Dawn
Artist
Elizabeth Winter
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
squaw creek national wildlife refuge
Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head�a color variant called the �Blue Goose.� Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent.
Medium-distance migrant. All populations migrate, making long flights broken up by long stopovers in staging areas. They fly quickly and at high altitudes in narrow flight lanes, heading more or less due south from the breeding grounds to a wintering site at roughly the same longitude. Some Snow Geese that winter in western North America breed in Siberia, and some that winter along the Atlantic coast breed in Greenland.
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December 7th, 2014
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Comments (55)
Hanne Lore Koehler
WOW, Elizabeth! What a spectacular capture of wildlife in this gorgeous wilderness area! Incredible sky with distant flocks streaking across the sunset! L/F
Robin Erisman
I love the colors of the sun rise behind the Snow Geese! Squaw Creek is amazing when all the snow geese are there, it seems as if its from another world with so many birds, and that sound. Beautiful!
Maria Hunt
One of those amazing moments... Thank you for sharing this. F/L & Voting in the Beautiful Bird contest.
Doug Kreuger
Elizabeth, What an amazing wildlife shot, perfectly time and captured! —Love the ambient light the wings! L&F