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Canada Geese in Winter

The photo that started it all for me!!!  For some reason, never having done any birding or photography in my life, I ordered my first film SLR, which arrived on this day...December 2nd, 2000.   Very cold day, quite a bit of snow on the ground, but I was determined to go out and try my new toy.   The very first thing I shot...these geese along the only halfway open water at a gravel pit just down the road from our house in Brandon.  I have no idea why I immediately went and started shooting these guys, but ever since that first day, I continued shooting primarily birds.  Just a few short years later, and now that one day's experience has morphed into a web site with 5000+ pages, setting an alarm clock 3 hours before dawn so I can get to my favorite raptor spot by Presho by sunrise, god knows HOW many hours processing photos...I had no idea what this day would eventually lead to!!!

Photo taken on December 2nd, 2000 at a quarry near Brandon, South Dakota.

Canada Goose - Branta canadensis

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