Camera Critters: Wildlife In The Snow

Here, the ground has been bare most of the winter, with only short periods of light snow cover, but this changed when about 5" of snow fell this week.

With snow on the ground, and more flakes falling  from lake effect snow squalls, winter wildlife photography becomes very interesting. I especially like to film wildlife in falling snow, as video makes the falling snowflakes look very natural and lends a wild exciting look to the footage, but it is harder to portray the falling snow well with still images. These are two of the better images that I was able to capture during a heavy snow squall yesterday morning.

Whitetail Doe In Falling Snow

Mature Eastern Wild Turkey Gobbler

 Hopefully there will be more opportunities to pursue this type of photography as more snow is forecast for next week.

Photos taken with Canon 40-D and 100-400mm L lens.

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Originally posted at Pennsylvania Wildlife Photographer by Willard C. Hill