This photograph comes from my second-to-last trip of the season to photograph migratory birds in California’s Central Valley. (See ya’ next year, geese!) Early in the season I try to time my visits for the best bird photography weather — a bit of morning fog, clearing later in the morning, and interesting clouds for sunset. But at this point, merely weeks before the geese would depart, I could not be as choosy!
As a result, it wasn’t a day of ideal light for bird photography. There was almost no fog, and before long it became a day of fairly mundane and sometimes harsh light. However, geese were hanging out in a pond very close to a good vantage point, so I stopped to work that scene a bit, soon noticing groups of black-necked stilts sharing the pond with the geese.
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