{"id":127918,"date":"2023-01-21T05:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=127918"},"modified":"2023-01-21T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T13:01:10","slug":"canada-goose-in-flight-a-six-image-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/21\/canada-goose-in-flight-a-six-image-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Goose In Flight – A Six Image Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

A species I try not to ignore and I’m glad I paid attention to this guy. I almost didn’t.<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon there were few birds on the pond that weren’t coots or mallards, birds that I had little interest in. But I did notice a single Canada Goose at a good distance for flight shots if ‘he’ should decide to take off. Occasionally there were other geese flying high overhead so I watched him carefully for quite a while, thinking he might take off and join them.<\/p>\n

As per my usual luck, he eventually decided to do just that but I had momentarily glanced away so I missed the earliest shots of him lifting off.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

But I got him in my viewfinder and in focus very soon after. I think this first shot is my favorite of the series.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

These first three photos are…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

sequential in a burst but then I’m skipping three shots that had photobombing coots and\/or mallards in the background.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Typical of geese, he was making lots of noise during the takeoff process but this is the only shot I got where he was calling.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

By now he’d built up a pretty good head of steam and he’d flown quite a distance so…<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I was shooting out my window at an angle so far behind my pickup I was having a hard time keeping him in my viewfinder, much less in focus. As a result I was lucky to get these last two photos. I actually got 20 shots where he was sharp and no body parts were cut off but in 14 of the 20 there were either photobombing birds in the background or I wasn’t particularly fond of his flight posture. Or both.<\/p>\n

I don’t post photos of Canada Geese very often because they’re so common, and often a nuisance, so they typically don’t get much positive reaction from folks. But they’e a native species and I think they can be very impressive in flight and in the right light, even beautiful.<\/p>\n

So I try not to ignore them. In this case I’m glad I didn’t.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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A species I try not to ignore and I’m glad I paid attention to this guy. I almost didn’t.\u00a0 (6 photos)<\/p>\n

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