Approximately a zillion #CacklingGeese coming in to land at the Tualatin River #NationalWildlifeRefuge this afternoon. Sound on for the full effect! Other birds today included a #NorthernHarrier lass cruising past at eye level, a distant flock of #WesternMeadowlark flushing up from the field, groups of #TundraSwan and #SnowGoose, faraway #GreaterYellowlegs and #Killdeer, a #GoldenCrownedKinglet practically in my pocket, and a white-belly second year #BaldEagle piccoloing overhead.
#BirdsOf2024

Think I just heard a #TundraSwan flock flying by! Dashed outside and someone promptly activated a leaf blower...😠

Crossed the border into Kent today, to find Whooper and Bewick’s Swans. Delighted to get reasonable shots of both.
#Swan #WhooperSwan #BewicksSwan #TundraSwan #WildSwan #Winter #Kent #SouthOfEngland

Crisp clear November morning with the soil still crunchy and filigreed with frost. Small flocks of Canada Geese moving in the distance; and overhead four Tundra Swans, white adults, winging toward the south while my dog noses the thawing mounds of pocket gophers. Here on the margin of the foothills, waterfowl habitat is more scattered than in the Willamette bottomlands, but from time to time we see swans in passage.
#Birding #TundraSwan