Tag: cygnus columbianus
Bathing Tundra Swan
Tundra Swan Running From Ice To Water During Takeoff – A Series
Tundra Swan Up Close And In A Big Hurry
The abrupt transition from running on ice to running on water must have been a challenge for such a huge bird.
Incoming Tundra Swan – Duck!
It’s time to start looking for migrating Tundra Swans in northern Utah. But other swans need to keep an eye out for them too, for their own safety.
Bear River Tundra Swan Soon After Takeoff
Yesterday’s Tundra Swans And The Frustrations Of Bird Photography
Tundra Swan In Flight Against A Multilayered Background
I like bird photography that includes significant hints at habitat. That goal is typically more difficult to achieve with flight shots than static shots but it can be done and this image is an example.
Tundra Swan In Flight Against The Promontory Mountains
Tundra Swan In Flight Against A Background I Really Like
Tundra Swan In Flight
Most winters around here Tundra Swans have been completely unapproachable but this year has been different.
Two Tundra Swans Taking Off And In Flight
A “Swananza” At Bear River MBA Yesterday
Yup, a bonanza of swans! And many were finally in areas where they could be seen up close.
Trumpeter Swan Pair With Six Cygnets
Trumpeter Swans are the largest of all North American waterfowl, weighing up to 30 pounds and having a wingspan of as much as 8 feet. It’s hard to imagine that by the 1930’s this species had been almost wiped out. In 1949 the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that the Trumpeter Swan was “the fourth rarest bird now remaining in America”. But thankfully recent intense swan restoration and management programs have brought the species back from the brink of extinction.
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Bathing Tundra Swan
Tundra Swan Running From Ice To Water During Takeoff – A Series
Tundra Swan Up Close And In A Big Hurry
The abrupt transition from running on ice to running on water must have been a challenge for such a huge bird.
Incoming Tundra Swan – Duck!
It’s time to start looking for migrating Tundra Swans in northern Utah. But other swans need to keep an eye out for them too, for their own safety.
Bear River Tundra Swan Soon After Takeoff
Yesterday’s Tundra Swans And The Frustrations Of Bird Photography
Tundra Swan In Flight Against A Multilayered Background
I like bird photography that includes significant hints at habitat. That goal is typically more difficult to achieve with flight shots than static shots but it can be done and this image is an example.
Tundra Swan In Flight Against The Promontory Mountains
Tundra Swan In Flight Against A Background I Really Like
Tundra Swan In Flight
Most winters around here Tundra Swans have been completely unapproachable but this year has been different.
Two Tundra Swans Taking Off And In Flight
A “Swananza” At Bear River MBA Yesterday
Yup, a bonanza of swans! And many were finally in areas where they could be seen up close.
Trumpeter Swan Pair With Six Cygnets
Trumpeter Swans are the largest of all North American waterfowl, weighing up to 30 pounds and having a wingspan of as much as 8 feet. It’s hard to imagine that by the 1930’s this species had been almost wiped out. In 1949 the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that the Trumpeter Swan was “the fourth rarest bird now remaining in America”. But thankfully recent intense swan restoration and management programs have brought the species back from the brink of extinction.