{"id":140984,"date":"2025-03-01T04:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=140984"},"modified":"2025-03-01T04:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:10:55","slug":"tundra-swan-portrait-bear-river-mbr-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/03\/01\/tundra-swan-portrait-bear-river-mbr-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Tundra Swan Portrait – Bear River MBR, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I’m sharing a simple Tundra Swan portrait taken almost two years ago on a bright winter day at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge<\/span><\/a> in northern Utah.<\/p>\n

\"TundraTundra Swan portrait\u2013 Nikon D500, f11, 1\/2000, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve searched for Tundra and Trumpeter Swans all winter in Arkansas and Oklahoma without finding any. They’re not as common here as they were in northern Utah.<\/p>\n

One day, I thought I saw one fly over at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. When the possible swan landed in a cornfield, it was so far away and mixed in with Snow Geese that, with heat waves rising off the field, I just couldn\u2019t be sure it was even a swan.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve missed the calls of the swans I used to hear in Utah, but thankfully, the overwintering Snow Geese here have taken their place.<\/p>\n

Listening to the calls<\/span><\/a> of hundreds of Snow Geese flying overhead is an auditory delight.<\/p>\n

By this time of year, both the swans in Utah and the Snow Geese here are starting to thin out as they follow their natural rhythms and begin their long journeys north to their breeding grounds. Spring is on the way, after all.<\/p>\n

These big white waterfowl have always been a joy to me.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Today, I’m sharing a simple Tundra Swan portrait taken almost two years ago on a bright winter day at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in northern Utah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140981,"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":[27,13973,13974,158],"tags":[4004,4142,4431,4064,4094,4046,4050,4628,3122,2117,2063,4095,373],"class_list":["post-140984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-oklahoma","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","category-tundra-swans","tag-adult","tag-close-up","tag-cygnus-columbianus","tag-ice","tag-marsh","tag-portrait","tag-snow","tag-swan","tag-swans","tag-tundra-swan","tag-waterfowl","tag-wetlands","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