Photo Bomb

We were down at Schoharie Crossing SHS boat launch looking for good ducks, when we spotted a crow carrying something large and tan.

I couldn't see what it was with the binoculars, so I turned the camera on it...more zoom.... when, WHAM! a Ring-billed Gull nailed him right in the back....just as I clicked the shutter.

Some roads were drifted nearly shut.
However, the towns around us were doing a pretty good job of keeping them open

Kinda blurry but fun. BTW we think it's bread.

The wind was buffeting me so hard that I couldn't get this skein of Snow Geese in the frame
There were a couple of hundred flying east and north and we were excited to see them
The past couple of years we have been lucky to find one at a time.

It has been a long week of dealing with unpleasant stuff that eats up all of everybody's time every single day.

Big and Little Nose Mountains in yesterday's fine sunset

However, we have stolen a couple of hours here and there to go birding and just get away and have been well-rewarded with the beginning of migration excitement.

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