Marty’s photo of the day #4994: Here’s a second photo from yesterday at Freezeout Lake (45 miles northwest of Great Falls, MT). The official migrating snow goose count yesterday was 51,500 (down from the peak of 63,500 a day earlier). Last night, when Deb and I went over all the photos I shot, she commented that I had managed to keep the geese in focus against the mountains when photos she’d seen previously from other photographers had the mountains in focus but not the birds.
My photo of the day yesterday did not include the mountains, so, of course, I had to post this second photo showing both the birds and the mountains.
Finding masses of migrating snow geese requires almost perfect timing—especially for people like us who had to make a 200-mile drive north, stay in a hotel, make a 45-mile drive, and find the geese before they take to the air shortly after sunrise. This photo was the result of my third attempt to get that timing right. My two previous trips to Freezeout Lake were decidedly less spectacular.