{"id":55403,"date":"2018-12-25T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T13:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=55403"},"modified":"2024-02-13T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:11:10","slug":"christmas-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/12\/25\/christmas-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChristmasChristmas Goose on a pond – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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I was able to spend a little time on Christmas Eve at the local pond not long before the sun set and the usual birds were there in nice light. Some Common Goldeneyes, a single Double-crested Cormorant, American Coots, Pied-billed Grebes, lots of wild and domestic mallards, a few Redheads, and geese.<\/p>\n

There were large Canada Geese and small Cackling Geese and geese that were somewhere in between both their sizes. Perhaps the middle sized geese were Lesser Canada Geese, I just know the more I looked at my long distance photos of the geese the more confused I became with those in between sized geese.<\/p>\n

Only one goose came in close enough for me to take a portrait of it and it was one of those in between sized geese. If pushed I would have to say this is a Lesser Canada Goose but who is going to push me for an ID on Christmas Day? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Even David Sibley has a difficult time positively identifying Lesser Canada Geese: Lesser Canada Goose in the northeastern US<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m happy that I was able to photograph birds on Christmas Eve in decent light and that somehow to me this is more than “just” a goose, it is a Christmas Goose and who am I to look a gift goose in the bill?<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas…<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I’m happy that I was able to photograph birds on Christmas Eve in decent light and that somehow to me this is more than “just” a goose, it is a Christmas Goose and who am I to look a gift goose in the bill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121044,"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":[27,527,28,709,26],"tags":[4004,32,528,4343,6301,6484,713,4775,6913,1984,4046,8018,3996,373],"class_list":["post-55403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-cackling-geese","category-canada-geese","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-branta-canadensis","tag-cackling-goose","tag-canada-goose","tag-christmas","tag-close","tag-geese","tag-goose","tag-lesser-canada-goose","tag-pond","tag-portrait","tag-urban","tag-water","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