Geese on Loch Fleet

Loch Fleet, this morning, ten o'clock, hardly a breath of wind to ruffle the waters of a falling tide or trouble the redshanks as they probed the newly exposed muds. On the far side of the loch, in front of the bird observatory....

....geese, hundreds if not a thousand of them, all, as far as I could tell....

....pink-footed.

Suddenly they were all in the air, not because they were disturbed but perhaps because one of them announced that it was breakfast time.

Some took off and turned north while others....

....circled across the loch before following them, leaving the loch....

....to the ducks and waders.