Day 8, Snow Geese
Day 8, Snow Goose / Anser caerulescens
Day 8, old blue house
Day 9, Hoof Fungus, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Fox Sparrow / Passerella iliaca, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 10, Chipping Sparrow / Spizella passerina
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, American Goldfinch male
Day 10, American Goldfinch female
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow
Day 10, young Fiddlehead ferns by dry dock, Tadous…
Day 10, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 11, Brandy Pot Island lighthouse
Day 11 FINISHED, catkins, Tadoussac
Day 12, SW of Port-au-Persil, Quebec
Day 12, male Firefly, probably in genus Photinus,…
Day 12, Snow Geese, Cap Tourmente National Wildlif…
Day 12, migrating Snow Geese, Cap Tourmente
Day 12, Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, Queb…
Day 12, some of the 50,000 Snow Geese, Cap Tourmen…
Day 8, Snow Geese
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 8, Lapland Longspur, Quebec
Day 7, Harbor Seal, Saguenay Fjord, Tadoussac
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, near Tad…
Day 7 afternoon, Sand Dunes in distance
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, off Tado…
Day 7 afternoon, whaling trip off Tadoussac
Day 7 afternoon, Surf Scoters off Tadoussac
Day 7, American Robin, Tadoussac
Day 7, Red Squirrel eating the bird food, Tadoussa…
Day 7, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 7, Red Squirrel, Tadoussac
Day 7, Watch out for children, Tadoussac
Day 7, Tadoussac Golf Course, Quebec
Day 7, Tadoussac
Day 7, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 7, lichen, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 7, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 7, Tadoussac Hotel, Quebec
Day 7, American Crow, Tadoussac
Day 7, part of Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 7, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 7, Brown Creeper, Tadoussac
Day 7, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 6, American Goldfinch, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 6, and so ends another day, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, Chapelle de Tadoussac / Tadoussac Chapel, Q…
Day 6, Chapelle de Tadoussac / Tadoussac Chapel, Q…
Day 6, Tadoussac Chapel, Quebec, Canada
Day 6, Tadoussac Hotel, Quebec
Day 6, Beluga, Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre…
Day 6, Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre, Tadous…
Day 6, Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre, Tadous…
Day 6, Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre, Tadous…
Day 6, working on his boat, Tadoussac drydock, Que…
Day 6, the drydock, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 6, Tadoussac Hotel, Quebec
Day 6, beautiful family home, Tadoussac
Day 6, unidentified object, Tadoussac
Day 6, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Tadoussac
Day 6, Red Squirrel, Tadoussac
Day 6, our home for a week, Tadoussac
Day 6, Tadoussac Golf Course, Quebec
Day 6, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Tadoussac
Day 6, Tadoussac Golf Course
Day 7, American Robin, Tadoussac
Day 6, Swainson's Thrush, Tadoussac Golf Course
Day 6, Horned Lark, Tadoussac Golf Course
Day 6, Tadoussac Golf Course, Quebec
Day 6, Swainson's Thrush, Tadoussac Golf Course
Day 6, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, part of Tadoussac, seen from up on the clif…
Day 6, Swainson's Thrush, Tadoussac
Day 6, shared by generations, Tadoussac
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, the Chauvin Trading Post, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 6, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 10, American Goldfinch female, Tadoussac
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Day 8, Snow Goose
The 10 images posted tonight were all taken on the morning of 14 May 2018, Day 8 of our two-week holiday in Point Pelee (Ontario) and Tadoussac (Quebec). Thankfully, I have reached a few much larger birds, which were a pleasure to see and photograph after struggling to get any shots of the small birds that we had just been seeing. However, those small birds were a real treat, especially the beautiful Lapland Longspurs. Though we do get them in Alberta, I have never seen one here. Most likely, I will never see one again, hence the distant shots that I have uploaded. I still have to track more or less where we saw these particular Snow Geese. The photo of a mass of distant Snow Geese was taken about 50 minutes after the shot of the Great Blue Heron, so the last few photos I have just uploaded were taken in the early afternoon. We get Snow Geese in Alberta, but on the few occasions that I have seen them, they have been far, far away.
"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.
The Snow Goose is a white-bodied goose with black wingtips that are barely visible on the ground but noticeable in flight. The pink bill has a dark line along it, often called a "grinning patch" or "black lips." You may also see dark morph Snow Geese, or "Blue Geese," with a white face, dark brown body, and white under the tail.
Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wingbeats." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
"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.
The Snow Goose is a white-bodied goose with black wingtips that are barely visible on the ground but noticeable in flight. The pink bill has a dark line along it, often called a "grinning patch" or "black lips." You may also see dark morph Snow Geese, or "Blue Geese," with a white face, dark brown body, and white under the tail.
Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wingbeats." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
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