The ice is slowly melting at Middle Creek and more snow geese and tundra swans were there today than last week.  I had serious ‘lens envy’ when I saw some of the fabulous long lenses that folks had at the park.   If you don’t have a nice long lens, bringing along binoculars is a big plus.  One gentleman that we met found a bald eagle while looking across the lake with his binoculars!  Eagles love to prey on the snow geese and as soon as the eagle makes an appearance, the geese take off in a honking blur of noise and motion!  It’s great for the photographers and in addition to the honking geese, you hear the click-click-click of camera shutters!  The blog image shows some of the children who were watching the geese last weekend.  This image has a watercolor effect applied.  Don’t worry … there are always LOTS of dogs at Middle Creek for me to photograph, too….photos coming soon!  🙂