What I love about this image is that every snow goose is looking to the right!  It really took a lot of effort to coax them all to pose like this, but I think it was worth it, don’t you?!  🙂  Actually, I waited 3 weeks for this type of image at Middle Creek.  In mid-February, the lake was still mostly frozen so all of the birds were out on what little open water there was.  On my 2nd visit, more of the lake was thawed and the birds were a little closer to land.  Finally this past weekend the lake was totally thawed and the birds had come ashore and were feeding in a field by the main road.  I was able to climb up the hill and watch them fairly close!  Next time I’ll see if I can get them all to look at the camera!  🙂