Marsh Madness

[AlanLichty]

I watched 4 Canada Geese swoop in and land in the wetlands at Burnt Bridge Creek and apparently they desired a spot that was occupied by a small group of Northern Pintails. One of the geese made a charge at the pintails trying to look as intimidating as possible while sort of running and flying while honking madly.

Starting the charge:

Becoming slightly airborne but still honking at the pintails to get out of the way. The goose landed about 5 feet from where it is in this frame and you can see some of the pintails getting out of the way.

Needless to say the pintails moved out and the geese moved in.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Neat capture of birds in action. Both are very well done.

 

[AlanLichty]

Neat capture of birds in action. Both are very well done.

Thanks Jameel - I didn't really see the details in the sequence I shot until I got home and could view them on a big screen. These were shot at 1000mm so I wasn't very close to the action. I thought they were about to take off when I started shooting.

 

[Trent Watts]

Those two shots tell the story Alan. Don't argue with a Canada goose for sure.

 

[AlanLichty]

Those two shots tell the story Alan. Don't argue with a Canada goose for sure.

Thanks Trent - it was educational to watch the interactions of the birds when they do something like this. From my viewpoint for these shots 80 meters away I really couldn't see what was going on at all since it was all over in a couple of seconds.

 

[JimFox]

It's interesting, in the first one, my immediate that was what cool splashing, but then it was, where is the birds head? We have a headless bird running. it took me a moment to find it's head.

Good ones.

 

[Beth]

canadian geese are such drama queens. love the splash action going on behind the goose.

 

[AlanLichty]

It's interesting, in the first one, my immediate that was what cool splashing, but then it was, where is the birds head? We have a headless bird running. it took me a moment to find it's head.

Good ones.

Thanks Jim - the goose was putting on quite the show and not really flapping its wings for flight.

 

[AlanLichty]

canadian geese are such drama queens. love the splash action going on behind the goose.

Thanks Beth - the splash action was a lot of fun. Drama queen is a good description for them

 

[Alan Milnes]

Beauty action shots of behaviour Alan.

 

[AlanLichty]

Beauty action shots of behaviour Alan.

Thanks - I have seen geese honk a lot and splash water around but have never caught an image of what they were really doing before.