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    Victoraville doesn't have Bosque's mountain backgrounds, but the sky often delivers some great colours in the later hours. This is one of about 20,000 snow geese that stay there on any given day in October or November! Does anyone know why some of them have the orange feathers on the heads? I assumed at first that it means it's a moulting juvenile but what I find on the internet doesn't bear that out.

    I cropped to 16x9 ratio in Photoshop and raised the curve just a bit, along with a slight brightening of the bird's head and neck.

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    Thanks as always for your C&C
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    Lovely colorful BG Jake, and nice wing position. I did a quick search regarding the "orange" feathers on the head and the internet provided this excerpt: (https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/f...0414-p0414.pdf)
    rusty color (generally a shadeof orange or orange brown) of some of the feathers which are normally white isfrequently found in individual Snow Geese (Chen hyperborea), Blue Geese (Chencaerulescens) and Ross's Geese (Chen rossii), particularly on the head, as well as inswans of various species. It is generally believed that this color is due to a depositionof iron oxides on the feathers assumed to take place when birds feed in watercontaining these salts in solution rather than to true feather pigmentation.

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    I like the back ground colors and no shadows on the bird.

    Looking at this post I remembered Bosque..
    Thanks for sharing this image.

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    Near wing position great. Far wing position not so much. Lovely light and clouds. And yes, the orange is stains that they get when feeding.

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