The bean goose can be often found in our country during its flights. Unfortunately they are very skittish and without camouflage you can’t approach them close enough to take a satisfactory picture. An amazing experience is watching hundreds, if not thousands, of these birds, which, after the breeding time, feed on the fields. A take-off of such a large group of birds makes a lot of terrible noise, but is also very impressive. The bean goose can weigh up to 3.5 kg, with a wingspan of over 1.5 meters.
Last minute news 10/2013
I have uploaded a few photos taken while I was photographing the barnacle goose and the great cormorant. This gallery is changing somehow unintentionally, as I have never set off for a shooting session planning to photograph bean geese specifically. Although I hadn’t had any interesting shots or close-ups, the pictures taken in September and October 2013 have changed the looks of the bean goose’s gallery. Sometimes when I see from my car hundreds of these birds feeding on roadside fields I would like to capture them, and what is more, with the use of a wide-angle lens, for a change.  A hide set in the right place and time would surely allow me to bring radical changes to this gallery’s contents. Although I managed to take a few pictures of the bean goose from a small distance, this time I would rather not have them. The bean goose was accompanied by the barnacle goose, cutting into the frame all the time, not to mention spoiling the potentially best dynamic photo of the barnacle goose, a very rare bird in Poland, encountered in our country only during its migration.  My various attempts to find a more convenient spot were undermined by the bean goose, as it would always move to the wrong place. It made me take pictures of it while it was posing statically (feeding) and dynamically (spreading its wings). I have no idea why this goose was not skittish at all and allowed me to take photos from a distance of several, maybe dozen plus meters.  It is difficult to approach bean geese feeding on fields even at a distance of a few dozen meters.  Who knows, perhaps it was all due to the influence of barnacle geese? The second session enriching this gallery took place on an open water reservoir of the Poznan Malta Zoo. Here bean geese were accompanied by Canada geese. This time long telephoto lenses were needless.
Thus the gallery of the bean goose have changed, and you can now see some better shots of this bird. I invite you to take a look…
Last minute news 10/2017
I added some photos of bean Geese. Among the preing birds were: barnacle Goose, bean Goose, greater White-fronted Goose, greylag Goose and common Starling.