Hi all, I was looking at some of the video I took in March this spring and on March 11 2012, I shot some snow geese landing on the water. I seem to have followed this group of geese some distance till they almost landed and among them was snow geese whose many primaries were white. So here is a link to some of the stills from the video.
https://picasaweb.google.com/111169522173716942833/WhiteWingedSnowGoose# What I have found interesting is when the geese (both Snow and Canada) they land among the group, they always seemed to land in the middle of the flock. One can watch how they decide and the whole group will find spots near by each other, if there are no spots for all to land, they make an effort to look for one by circling around. It would be wonderful to watch from above them to see how they choose those landing spots. I also have videos as to how they take off from the group. It would be lovely to put them together to see what characters are utilized to make decision of flying or landing. In Bosque del Apache, I took videos of Sandhills taking off in the styles of athletes " get set (sometimes they stand with their neck stretched for a long time) go" . What triggered to go was a mystery. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
