Snow goose Fly By

[Chris Hansen]

I don't do flight shots very often so this is a new one for me. Taken free hand out of my car window at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge along the auto tour.

Canon 50D
Canon 100-400 @ 400
ISO 400
F10.0 @ 1/800th sec.

All CC appreciated.
God bless,

chris

[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Love the full stretch wing and the image looks sharp. The white on the cheek is not lost so I might try to pull some details on that. Wish that we could see the other wing too.

[Jeff Cashdollar]

Chris, I assume this was manual, nice one. Might trade a stop of aperture for a stop of shutter.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Nice find, I think this is a Ross's Goose. The bill is smaller than that of a Snow Goose.

[Chris Hansen]

Good Catch Axel,

You are right now that i took a closer look at it. There is some blue on the bill. There are quite a few Ross geese mixed in at the Sacramento Refuge complex.I wasn't even thinking about that fact.

God bless,

chris

[Alfred Forns]

Ross's it is !! Good exposure and like seeing the upward wing stroke, wish the other was up also !! Bird is just turning from you but like the capture !!!

[Gus Cobos]

A nice capture Chris, I like the raised wing formation...:cool:

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Great flight capture Chris. Maybe a little more room at top.
Congrats