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The Bear Glacier is a big attraction on the drive on highway
The Snow Geese pictured here are having a brief stop on their way from Wrangell Island in the Siberian Arctic to Baja California. At their peak, there are as much as 60,000 Geese in the Vancouver area every spring and fall. These birds were actually resting and eating in the marshland adjacent to the Strait of Georgia. We waited for nearly an hour to get a photograph of them on the wing. The thing that set them off is visible in the lower right corner a couple in a kayak thought they would get a closer look.
Here's additional information provided by the camera along with the original file.
File name :DSC_1746.NEF File size :3.7MB (3928458 bytes) Date taken :Sat, 20 Oct, 2001 12:08:52 PM Image size :3008 x 1960 Resolution :300 x 300 dpi Number of bits :12 bits/channel Protection :Off Camera ID :N/A Camera :NIKON D1X Quality mode :HI (5.4M Raw Compressed) Metering mode :Matrix Exposure mode :Aperture priority Speed light :Off Focal length :300.0 mm Shutter speed :1/1600 seconds Aperture :F5.6 Exposure compensation :0.0 EV White Balance :Auto Lens :300 mm F4.0 Flash sync mode :N/A Exposure difference :0.0 EV Flexible program :No Sensitivity :ISO200 Sharpening :Low Image Type :Color Color Mode :Mode 2 (Adobe RGB) Hue adjustment :3 Saturation Control :N/A Tone compensation :Normal Latitude(GPS) :N/A Longitude(GPS) :N/A Altitude(GPS) :N/A