We're quite used to the calls of geese as they fly over in their skeins yet we always look up, perhaps through a certain envy of their freedom. However, yesterday morning we looked up because there seemed to be unusually large numbers of them calling.
In the past we've counted over a thousand passing over at any one time but what we saw yesterday was breathtaking, not one skein as in the photograph but skein after skein, from small ones of a few tens of individuals through to large ones counting in the hundreds.
In an age when we are accustomed to hear that the numbers of a particular species is falling, sometimes drastically and usually through man-induced change, it is heartening to find one species here which appears to be doing well.
These are pink-footed geese, and they seem to fly north and south along this coast each day. Although we haven't seen them in any numbers on Loch Fleet we have seen them feeding in a field just this side of the loch and we've also seen them rising from fields just to the north of Dunrobin Castle. Perhaps they visit different fields on different days. I only hope that they're not upsetting too many of the local farmers.
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