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Snow Geese Flight

Snow Geese Flight is taken at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in the Sacramento Valley of California on the Pacific Flyway of the West Coast.

Snow Geese live and breed for most of the year far north of California in the areas of Canada and Alaska.  Snow Geese Flight captures this North American Goose on its migration in winter in the Central Valley of California.  Every winter many birds winter on the Pacific Flyway with wintering stops in various wildlife refuges of California.  The refuges of the Sacramento Valley are often filled with enormous numbers of Geese. Numbers can reach into the millions after the wetlands of the Klamath Basin further north become frozen.

It is not rare to see thousands of geese liftoff in flight all at once.  Alfred Hitchcock filmed the final scene of the film “The Birds” in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge.  He filmed the geese at one of these liftoffs and made the birds look like gulls.

I photographed the Snow Geese Flight in the late afternoon light of Colusa National Wildlife Refuge.  It was a spectacular winter day at the refuge.  Activity of all of the wildlife, including the Snow Geese Flight birds, was throughout the small reserve.

I like to photograph at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge.  The variety of wildlife is extensive. Along with birds like the Snow Geese Flight, I have seen deer, hawks, sandhill cranes, herons, ducks and other varieties of geese. Magical things always happen to me at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge.

The birds in the Snow Geese Flight photograph flew over my location at the most perfect time.  The sun was setting to the west in the distance.  They flew directly into the warm light and took their course directly towards me and my camera.

Snow Geese Flight captures this moment in time.