Tag Archives: Middle-Creek-WMA

Snow Geese fly-out against a textured sky

Several Snow Geese fly out of the farmer’s field next to Chapel Road at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA on Sunday 2-20-2011. For more information on Snow Geese, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology. I blended several textures from the commercially available texture packs from Distressed Textures to give the sky a painterly...

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3:54 PM Takeoff

Thousands of Snow Geese take off at one time from a farmer’s cornfield at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA on Sunday 2-20-2011. The geese typically take off in the morning and head out to the surrounding farm fields in search of plants to eat then they fly back into the safety...

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Snow Geese in formation at Middle Creek WMA

Three Snow Geese fly in formation overhead at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA on Sunday 2-20-2011. The Pennsylvania Game Commission web site said on 2-17-2011 that because of temperatures in the mid to upper 60s on two days this week, the ice has begun to thaw on both the lake and...

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…and then little Bobby Melvins [age 4] dropped a piece of bread 2 miles away…

Some of the 120,000-150,000 Snow Geese that visit the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA during February and March of each year. I shot this back on 3-7-2010. How they don’t all fly into one another is beyond my comprehension. For more information on Snow Geese, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.

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Tundra Swan or 747 Jet ?

Tundra Swan flying over the lake at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA on Monday 2-23-2009. For more information about Tundra Swans, visit this page at the Cornell Lab Of Ornithology.

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Canada Geese into a wind gust @ Middle Creek WMA

hree Canada Geese hit a wind gust head on while traveling over the lake at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA on Monday 2-23-2009. The wind was whipping around pretty good and when flocks of birds would fly over head, often times their horizontal progress was abruptly changed into a vertical launch when...

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The conductor

Tundra Swan conducts the orchestra in a rousing rendition of, what else, “Swan Lake”.   Taken at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area on Monday 2-23-2009.

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