Yes, I was shooting across the pool with a 600mm lens with a 1.4
teleconverter so I was pulling them in from quite a distance. These
birds flew in and landed while we were there. For all we know, they
might have been a different group than was reported earlier.

You think you're bummed out--we drove all over trying to find the
Sandhill Cranes. Then we find out the day afterward that they were at
Armitage Rd.--the only place we didn't hit--along with a flock of
Trumpeter Swans. Life is just not fair!

--- In montezumaphotography@yahoogroups.com, "Sally Campagnone"
<CowsRcute@...> wrote:
>
> Nice photo but I am bummed out! We read in the paper about the snow
> geese and we went last Thursday and didn't see a single one! We saw
> some egrets but they were too far away to photograph. We saw Canadian
> geese, some ducks, coots and a couple of blue herons. That was it!
> Were we looking in the wrong places? It looks like the snow geese
> picture you posted was taken on the drive around the big pond where
> most of the Canadian geese and ducks were when we were there.
>