Wednesday, December 6, 2017

From the strip pit area


Ran through the strip pit area today...just to be going.  Saw our first Northern Harrier out there.  Normally we see them quite a while before now.

From this road, it is a good ways over to the big strip pit...so the following photo was zoomed way in.

I think the white are swans...I am pretty sure the others are white fronted geese.  They are so far that without the zoom power of the camera, you cannot really tell for sure that it is birds.   And for sure did not see the white fronted geese...all we saw was the white.  I was on the road in the first photo when I took this photo.

20 comments:

  1. Wished I could take photos there. Carol

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  2. A marvelous sight to see this many birds!

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  3. Those "strip pirs" sound really interesting. Obviously they provide habitat for a lot of birds!

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  4. ...wow, the first one would make a great Reflective Moment!

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  5. Hello, looks like a great birding spot. The white birds could be the Snow Geese. Happy Thursday, enjoy your day!

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  6. wow, that looks like thousands of white birds. I bet if they all lifted off the sky would be white.. so glad you got to visit the strip pits

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  7. Beautiful floating white clouds in the first picture. I have never seen so many white swans!

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  8. Dos muy bellas fotografías, muy bien logradas.
    Un camino sobre una zona desierta que nos lleva al cielo y la segunda en lo que me parece una laguna tomados a la distancia-que no puedo precisar-infinidad de cisnes-toda una maravilla-descansando en las aguas.
    Un buen reportaje dela naturaleza.
    Un abrazo.

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  9. What a great area for all nature lovers!

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  10. Even without detail the white of the birds is very attractive. These are successful pictures.

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  11. Beautiful! The first picture is stunning.

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  12. I agree with Ruth--- that first shot is quite fine.

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  13. Wow. Amazing pics.

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  14. Oh Rose, that first pic is glorious. Straight as a die.
    I have a hard time photographing the birds when they are all on the ground or water like that. They just come out flat for me.
    MB

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  15. What an amazing place. It looks so wild and remote. I love your photo of the road leading on to the horizon with those amazing cloud formations overhead.

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  16. But anyhow there’s lot of birds and a wonderful back roads to go around!

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  17. There is an incredible amount of birds there. What a sight to see.

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  18. I love the first photo! So many birds in the second pic!

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