More Geese

This morning we sat and watched as massed skeins of pink-footed geese flew across the skies above the Dornoch Firth, on their way north to the day's feeding grounds. We tried to find some way of estimating how many there were, but were defeated. All we could come up with is that the upper arm of the nearest skein consisted of about 200 geese - and if you look closely in the lower part of the picture - click on the picture to enlarge it - there are masses more, and more continued to pass over after all the geese in this picture had gone.

There is something awe-inspiring when one encounters large numbers of a single species gathered together - and, at times, frightening, as when....

....we encountered a large herd of buffalo in the Selous reserve in Tanzania.

From the way the geese numbers are increasing, I would guess that more and more are still arriving from their summer nesting grounds in Iceland and Greenland, so we may have even more awe-inspiring sights to come.