Bit of a backlog to get through having been so silent on here lately, but for me there's only one place to start...
First there was just the one Barnacle Goose in the valley, I found it feeding with the Canada Geese on Bridge Marsh on 16th March. But on 20th there were three, increasing to four from 24th...
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| The usual view of them! |
Although they were often distant, and who knows where they originated from, they were an absolute joy to have with us. Watching them call to each other in the evening light, literally having a barney, is not something I can say I have ever witnessed before.
To my surprise they stayed with us as a foursome until 30th March, when I had the absolute privilege of watching them soon after dawn on the closest part of the closest island to the Island hide on Black Hole Marsh...
Such a stunning species of wildfowl with an endearing quality about them. And what made this encounter even more precious is that about half an hour later they were seen to fly off and have not been seen since, well not here anyway...
Later the same day four Barnacle Geese appeared on Lodmoor, Weymouth. Next stop Svalbard?
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