The Variety Collection

My images in this gallery are used in other galleries or for elements of the website, but please do feel free to browse/shop it if you are curious. You will find a large potpourri of my photography in this collection with image subjects ranging from urban to wilderness.

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I Has a String

Here a white morph Snow Goose demonstrates its flight technique-- and yes that's probably grass and not a string in it's bill, heh. :-)

One cool ID factoid to know in order to tell the very similar Snow Geese and Ross's Geese apart is the distinctive black patch on bill edges, the "grinning patch" or "smile" unique to the Snow Geese. The black lipstick-like grin patch is easy to see on this capture. Also Ross's Geese have much smaller/stubbier triangular bills.

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