{"id":138977,"date":"2025-01-26T03:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T09:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=138977"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:22:24","slug":"more-snow-snow-geese-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/01\/26\/more-snow-snow-geese-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"More Snow: Snow Geese At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, I’m writing about more “snow”, but not the fluffy, melty kind. Nope, it’s the live, honking, feathered kind. By that, I mean beautiful Snow Geese.<\/p>\n

\"SnowSnow Geese in a corn field at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/3200, ISO 800, Canon EF 100-400mm II at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Two days ago, while I was at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, I had hoped to video the Snow Geese lifting off from the Arkansas River at dawn with my new cell phone. I could hear some of the geese in the distance, but they didn\u2019t fly by the hundreds from the river to the fields that morning.<\/p>\n

Later in the morning, only a handful of Snow Geese were feeding in the cornfields not far from the river. Naturally, I wanted to photograph them. The geese are beautiful and amazing.<\/p>\n

\"DarkDark morph Snow Goose in a corn field \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f8, 1\/3200, ISO 800, Canon EF 100-400mm II at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Snow Geese breed far north of Oklahoma, in the tundra of the Arctic regions of North America and Siberia. Their journey is truly amazing, they fly incredible distances to reach their wintering grounds and then, come spring, travel all the way back to their breeding grounds, a cycle of life they have followed for eons.<\/p>\n

The goose in the photo above is a dark morph Snow Goose, also known as a blue morph or Blue Goose. It has a piece of corn husk stuck to its neck feathers. It is fine, the corn husk didn\u2019t go all the way around its neck.<\/p>\n

I hope I get a chance to video the Snow Geese lifting off from the Arkansas River soon. The geese will be leaving on their spring migration before too long.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Snow Goose photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, I\u2019m writing about more \u201csnow\u201d, but not the fluffy, melty kind. Nope, it\u2019s the live, honking, feathered kind. By that, I mean beautiful Snow Geese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13973,13974,1971],"tags":[4004,16178,4513,16181,16006,13984,16180,4530,16179,16177,12497,713,16176,4775,13315,4514,4190,2063,373],"class_list":["post-138977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oklahoma","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","category-snow-geese","tag-adult","tag-alpaca","tag-anser-caerulescens","tag-blue-goose","tag-blue-morph","tag-bottomlands","tag-corn-field","tag-dark-morph","tag-fingerless","tag-fingertipless-gloves","tag-flapping-wings","tag-geese","tag-gloves","tag-goose","tag-hand","tag-snow-geese","tag-sunrise","tag-waterfowl","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t