Snow Goose Sunset

Every year tens of thousands of snow geese overwinter in the Skagit Valley in Washington State. The state works with local farmers, paying them to plant winter cover crops that the geese can eat and designating their fields as sanctuary for the season. Most of the visitors are snow geese, but there are sometimes swans as well.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

As a European, I always figured Washington to be a seat of power, expecting it to be very urbanized. The more I learn about it though, the more I see it has actually great nature.

PS: I love that moment of the day when white turns blue, it's magical and you captured it perfectly. Posted 10 years ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  lol - we're the other Washington. Washington DC, the capital is an east coast city and the area is more urbanized. It still has access to nature, but not quite like we do. Over here on the west coast we've got Washington State, which has it's big cities - I live in Seattle, which is the biggest though not exactly a seat of power :p more of a bastion of techies and west coast liberals, but also has easy access to a wide range of rather incredible wild spaces. We've got everything from temperate rain forest near the coast to high desert over the mountains to the east. Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    hehe, silly me. I hope you can imagine europeans not knowing the difference. you know, kind of like some americans thinking amsterdam is a country or that people from holland are german. Posted 10 years ago
  2. 1. morpheme
      
      Lion
      
      It's not uncommon at all - even people who live in the US often think of Washington DC first :) Posted 10 years ago

travismorhardt

Lion

Those noisy snow geese! You sure know when they're in the area, flying overhead or on ground. I like that you can see Mt. Rainier in the background, too! Posted 10 years ago

The Snow goose

The snow goose is a North American species of goose. Its name derives from the typically white plumage. The genus of this bird is disputed. The American Ornithologists' Union and BirdLife International place this species and the other "white geese" in the "Chen" genus, while other authorities follow the traditional treatment of placing these species in the "gray goose" genus "Anser".

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Similar species: Ducks, Geese, Etc.

Species identified by morpheme