Despite the questionable lighting that we had to contend with we had a great time on Fir Island photographing and just watching the hughe flocks of Snow Geese arriving for the winter. Snow Geese facts: Snow Goose hunting in the eastern United States was stopped in 1916 because of low population levels. Hunting was allowed again in 1975 after populations had increased. Populations have been growing so large that the geese are destroying nesting habitat. Hunting has not slowed the dramatic increases in population size.

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