Some More Geese

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Nice shots. Where are these from? Been awhile since I have seen them in a corn field. People forget, they don't need water to land in.

Nice shots!
A couple of changes that will get you even sharper shots. Bump your ISO up to at least 400 if not 800.
I would also use an F-stop of 5.6 or larger. This will allow you to increase your shutter speed. You'd like to get it greater than your focal length of 250.

They camoflage well don't they

canonloader wrote in post #9102947
Nice shots. Where are these from? Been awhile since I have seen them in a corn field. People forget, they don't need water to land in.

Thanks, I'm trying.

We are neighbors sorta.

I am right across Lake Michigan from you. Although I am closer to Lake Huron in Michigan.

The corn fields in the general area I am in get invaded by them real good.

It's fun being around all this activity with them.

rw2 wrote in post #9103109
Nice shots!
A couple of changes that will get you even sharper shots. Bump your ISO up to at least 400 if not 800.
I would also use an F-stop of 5.6 or larger. This will allow you to increase your shutter speed. You'd like to get it greater than your focal length of 250.

Thanks, it is fun.

I appreciate your insight with camera settings for this.

These ones were shot in AV at 200 ISO, shutter speed 100, F-stop 8.0

I have know idea why I did not change my ISO during all this either. Guess I got caught up in all the geese activity and forgot about it. Will remember this next time out.

Thanks, I'll keep working at all this.

artyman wrote in post #9103634
They camoflage well don't they

Yes, they do camoflage well for sure. From different angles and distances it is interesting just how good the camoflage is.

Nice shots.

The last time I saw any on the ground away from water, was when I worked over in Iowa for a summer. At the edge of town was pasture and cornfield. Literally at the edge of town. One side of the street was residential houses, the other side was pasture and cornfield. I grew up on a farm, so I have a feel for size, and I would say this area was maybe 60 acres, and it was completely covered by Canada Geese, shoulder to shoulder. They spilled out onto the road, across the road into peoples front yards, and as far as you could see to the other side. There was a roadsign, put up by the city, that said, "Geese have right of way, this means you". And apparently, they meant it. If you were to run over one, you'd be visiting the jail.

The noise was something else, and I went there many days to just experience it, so it was not a one day phenomenon. I wish I'd owned a camera then.

artyman wrote in post #9103634
They camoflage well don't they

^^^ Agree, they really blend in to their respective environment.

akhan wrote in post #9105916
Nice shots.

Thank you. It is fun being around these with such activity going on.

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I think these fields and wetlands spots are something they may have been coming to for thousands of years. It's part of their DNA. Because a town has grown up around their traditional nesting areas, means nothing. It's engrained in them. It would be like a leopard changing it's spots. One day, it would be real nice, if we could understand their needs, and realize they have the same rights we do. And even better, respect them.

canonloader wrote in post #9106291
The last time I saw any on the ground away from water, was when I worked over in Iowa for a summer.

Twice a day, 7 days a week they will leave the water to feed. Only when they can't fly will they stay in the water. Even then if they nest next to a crop they will walk out of the water to "graze" on the early crop.
This is how hunters in our area will scout for them. They find a field that they are feeding in that evening. They come back before sunrise, put up their decoys and wait for them to come back that next morning. Once hunted in that field they will find another to feed in that evening. So around here it is easy to find these geese on dry land. Some time it can be just a few and later in the fall it can be a few hundred.