Snow Geese

Snow Geese And Avian Flu Reporting

By Mia McPherson|December 10th, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Snow Geese|Tags: Anser caerulescens, autumn, avian flu, fall, field, flight, flock, flocks, flying, geese, goose, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, HPAI, landing, on the wing, reporting, sick birds, Snow Geese, waterfowl|

Watch Snow Geese land in Oklahoma in my video and learn how you can help track avian flu by reporting sick or dead waterfowl to the AGFC.

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Blizzards Of Snow Geese Now At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

By Mia McPherson|November 29th, 2024|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Snow Geese|Tags: Anser caerulescens, autumn, blasting off, blizzard, Blue Geese, blue morph, bottomlands, dark morph, early morning, fall, field, flight, flock, flying, front, gaggle, geese, goose, hatch year, immature, lifting off, Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Sequoyah NWR, sky, Snow Geese, Snow Goose, taking off, trees, waterfowl, white morph, young|

Blizzards of Snow Geese have arrived at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge! I’m so excited about all of the Snow Geese that I can barely contain myself. Wow!

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Snow Goose In Salt Lake County

By Mia McPherson|December 15th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Salt Lake County, Snow Geese, Utah|Tags: adult, Anser caerulescens, autumn, fall, geese, golf course, goose, grass, Snow Geese, Snow Goose, urban, waterfowl|

Towards the end of November, I found a Snow Goose in Salt Lake County at my local pond. Unfortunately, on that afternoon, I didn't have my camera with me.

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December Snow Goose

By Mia McPherson|December 28th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Salt Lake County, Snow Geese, Utah|Tags: adult, Anser caerulescens, geese, goose, pond, Snow Geese, Snow Goose, urban, waterfowl, white morph, winter|

Usually by this time in December I've seen at least one Snow Goose to photograph but so far this year I haven't found one yet.

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An Immature Snow Goose in Salt Lake County

By Mia McPherson|January 11th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Salt Lake County, Snow Geese, Utah|Tags: afternoon light, Anser caerulescens, calling, drink, flight, geese, goose, immature, juvenile, low light, preening, Snow Geese, urban, waterfowl, winter, young|

I can't be certain this is the same goose that I saw on December 26th but I found an immature Snow Goose feeding with some Canada Geese in the grass across the pond.

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Snow Geese on the shore of the Great Salt Lake

By Mia McPherson|March 4th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Great Salt Lake, Snow Geese, Utah|Tags: adult, Anser caerulescens, geese, goose, Great Salt Lake, hypersaline lake, immature, juvenile, lake, lake shore, lakeshore, shoreline, Snow Geese, waterfowl, winter|

I'm hoping to go on a "Goose Chase" this morning, the sky is supposed to be clear so there should be good light and I would be delighted to see some snow, Snow Geese that is!

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By Mia McPherson|November 16th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Snow Geese, Utah|Tags: adult, Anser caerulescens, autumn, fall, geese, goose, Great Salt Lake, hypersaline lake, immature, juvenile, lake shore, lakeshore, nature, shore, shoreline, Snow Geese, Snow Goose|

I was tickled to get these images and the others I created of these two Snow Geese yesterday, especially since they were close.

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