Pink-footed Geese

Back in October last year, my friend Rich and I spent the best part of a day photographing Pink-footed Geese. It was quite a few years since I had photographed them properly. This was mainly down to timing, wind direction and sunshine. Anyway, on this day all these factors came together and we got some pleasing results. With plenty of birds, which were still migrating in from the north, the skies were full of them. It may be another 6 or 7 years before the conditions are right again, but I now have enough images of them to last, and have just added 77 to my main website. Here's just a few of them.

Cute and Cuddly

Each Spring I spend some time photographing ducklings, these are usually Mallards, as being common are easy to find. This year I specifically wanted to get some shots of Canada Geese goslings, although the adults are very common, you don't see a great deal with goslings, not in my part of the world anyway. A local park had a pair that had two very approachable youngsters which I spent a few hours with.
Locally I found a family of Mandarin Ducks that had eight ducklings, this was an unexpected bonus as I had never photographed them before.

Canada Goose

Mandarin Duck