We went for our first birding trip of the fall. We noticed last week that the Swans were back in our area, so decided to drive to Skagit county to an area called Fir Island to look for the Snow Geese. Skagit Valley is a great area to view Swans and Snow Geese. It's fields are full of them throughout the winter months. Usually the Swans and Snow geese arrive about the same time. We saw them but, there were just a few of them in the fields - more to be coming soon!!
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| Our first sighting (click to enlarge) |
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| closer (click to enlarge) |
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| as close as we could get (click to enlarge) |
When they are all here for the season, the skies are full of birds looking for a nice field to feed on. They are very noisy, I love to watch them lock their wings for the landing.
Here's a picture I took last year of a group that had just been disturbed, they take off all together and then land all together a short distance away.
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| Snow Geese |
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