It's always nice to come across images where you can just tell the photographer knows exactly what they are doing and they are getting the shot they want and not something lucky. This is one of them. I like everything from the composition to the editing treatment. Probably won't do as well as others because it's not bursting with color and such but I think this is a pretty darn good photo. Good luck.
I like this. It gives us an entire vignette/scenario vs. just a closeup of the birds. Nice diagonal line of the shoore with some added texture in the ice and the foreground. 7
I like the b&w treatment: it's a winter scene, it's cold and stark, there's little vegitation, etc. I also like how all the geese are looking left, as if something is going on and they're poised to go check it out. Perhaps more effective use of the Channel Mixer could be employed, given Advanced Editing here, to draw the geese out further from their surroundings; as is they blend a bit too much IMO. Nicely captured scene.