RHH's photos with the keyword: geese

These photos are more intimate shots of the sunset I photographed at our lake a few days ago. This has a skein of geese flying over the lake and two of the photos have a muskrat swimming in the lake while one simply shows some of the fabulous color of the sunset.

These were some of the colors before the sunset faded down at Clear Lake a few nights ago.

We often see this Muskrat swimming in the lake near our home, Clear Lake. A Muskrat is a semi-aquatic rodent that is found across North America. This one was photographed swimming in waters colored by the sunset.

This photo is of the water of Clear Lake, the lake near our home, colored by the sunset and enjoyed by a Muskrat, an often-seen resident of the lake shore.

When we visit the Skagit Valley in western Washington in the spring to see the tulip and daffodil fields, we also look for the flocks of Snow Geese that winter there. They form flocks of thousands of birds and the noise they make is deafening. We did not get to the Skagit Valley this year so these photos are from last year's visit.

These are Snow Geese, the name given for obvious reasons, though there is a blue-gray morph of the species as well sometimes called a Blue Goose. These were photographed in the Skagit Valley in Western Washington where they winter in huge flocks.

This Snow Goose is coming in for a landing. We visited the Skagit Valley last spring and looked for and found the flocks of Geese that winter there.

These huge flocks of Snow Geese winter in the Skagit Valley in western Washington before returning north. We saw and photographed them last spring.

Snow Geese have always wintered in huge flocks in Washington's Skagit Valley. In more recent years some flocks have moved further north and wintered in the area where we used to live. This small flock was photographed near the town of Lynden, Washington.

This is another photo from our visit to the Skagit Valley bulb farms when we saw the huge flocks of snow geese that winter there. I liked this shot both because it shows some of the geese coming in to land and because it shows a dark color form sometimes known as a "Blue Goose."

This is another shot from the Skagit Valley. We had gone to see the tulips and daffodils and ended up watching and photographing the huge flocks of Snow Geese that had wintered in the fields and still had not left for the Arctic. These two were coming in for a landing after circling around. Someone would get too close or a noise would spook them and many of them would take off only to return as these two were doing.

We were out for the day today photographing a very early spring and while visiting the Skagit Valley to see the daffodils and tulips (the daffodils are at their peak and the tulips are started), we saw the most amazing thing - thousands of Snow Geese which had been wintering in the valley. Most of the time they were feeding on the ground but occasionally something would spook them and large groups of them would start flying. Whether feeding or flying the noise was incredible. We spent several hours photographing them and though I have some better pictures I wanted to post this to give some idea of the huge numbers. Snow Geese breed on the arctic tundra but winter as far south as Mexico.