As today's late afternoon light started to fail skein after skien of pink-footed geese flew over, calling as they passed, heading southwest for a night on their roosting grounds.
A not unreasonable estimate is that the top picture shows about 120 geese, and there were at least five similar, so a fair estimate is that these skeins contained some 600 geese. This seems a large number but a few years ago we used to see many more.
Then, tomorrow morning, they'll pass over in the opposite direction, to settle for a day's foraging on some unfortunate farmer's fields.
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