Sunday, May 22, 2011

First goslings of the year

CANADA GOOSE AND GOSLINGS, GREEN, MICHIGAN, MAY 20, 2011

Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 ED (IF)
1/2500 sec. f7.1
ISO 1600

Honkers are considered golf-course pests back in Illinois but are a valued part of the wilderness scenery in Upper Michigan, where they belong. Normally we see five or six goslings in a clutch, leading us to think that an eagle or an owl might have picked off a few siblings of this lonely pair photographed the other day in front of our cabin on Lake Superior.

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