This large field between the Littleferry road and the A9, which runs just this side of the trees in the middle distance, was busy with pink-footed geese when we passed yesterday, but not in the numbers we were seeing when I last wrote about them in November.
During the harsh winter weather we hardly saw any and it's only been in the last week or so that they've reappeared. We haven't seen greylags for weeks.
It may be that the pink footed geese moved further south this year, perhaps to Norfolk which seems to offer some favoured wintering grounds, though many winter in the Montrose area. The UK population of pink footed geese is important; about 90% of the world population winters here.
They'll be building up their fat reserves now ready for April, when they migrate north to their breeding grounds in Greenland and Iceland.
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