Middle-Creek-WMA

Tundra Swan or 747 Jet ?

by Gregg Obst on February 27, 2009

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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

by Gregg Obst on February 25, 2009

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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 they hit one of the wind gusts. This would send them into all sorts of maneuvers to try and go around the gust or abort their flight plans all together and return to the lake.

For more information about Canada Geese, visit this page at the Cornell Lab Of Ornithology.

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The conductor

February 24, 2009

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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Tundra Swan in flight @ Middle Creek WMA 2-23-2009

February 23, 2009

Adult Tundra Swan flying from the lake over Klinfeltersville Road to the pond at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA on Monday 2-23-2009. When I was at Middle Creek on Saturday, a good portion of the lake and pond were frozen over and the Tundra Swans were hiding behind the trees along the [...]

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Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area 2-21-2009

February 22, 2009

I spent Saturday at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA photographing Snow Geese and Tundra Swans.  Right now the Snow Geese transient population is estimated to be somewhere between 40,000 to 50,000 birds at the WMA but their numbers are expected to swell to aroudn 100,000 to 125,000 by the second week [...]

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