I made a third visit to the Sonny Bono Salton Sea NWR this year and got some more good pictures of snow geese I want to share. My prior posts on the lesser snow goose are here and here.
The numbers I saw are substantially down from my first two visits. There were only very small groupings at Unit 1 and Unit 2. My favorite photos are of them flying, taken at Unit 1 (from my car).
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| This is an immature goose flying. |
I also found one in a canal, the first one I've seen on the water. When it saw me it hustled into the reeds. I got a photo of it later and it appears it was shot. I did hear hunters shooting shotguns nearby.
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| The red on the side of the body looks like a wound. |
At Unit 2 near the visitor center there were two small groups of geese at the far southwestern end of the large pasture. I focused on an intermediate morph and some immature birds that look like they will be blue morphs or intermediate morphs as well.
I love the two geese in flight. It looks like bird ballet. Gorgeous. And I feel really sad for that goose with the wound.
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