Unbelievable to say but there were a lot of crossbills at different spots on my long walk…another influx? Surely not.
In the skies large flocks of geese were heading north. Hundreds and hundreds of them.
Unbelievable to say but there were a lot of crossbills at different spots on my long walk…another influx? Surely not.
In the skies large flocks of geese were heading north. Hundreds and hundreds of them.
Some geese shots when the light was (slightly) better….
We found some roadside geese nice and close but the light was terrible; backlit with hazy bright light in the midday sun.
There were 4/5 species; Cackling, Greater White-fronted, Snow and Taiga/Tundra Bean…
Not sure which of the latter this ones is TBH.
The geese had already arrived but the fields were covered in snow and we couldn’t get close to the feeding flock. So just BIFs as they moved around looking for food.
Most of them were Greater White-fronts…
Think that one must have over-summered locally…
A dreary overcast afternoon in Yakumo and hard work with the RF 600 f/11…
A pair of Garganey were present as were several Northern Shoveler, Great and Little Egret, Eurasian Curlew (presumably the same bird as 3 weeks ago) and about 200 White-fronts…
There were some geese at Yakumo at the weekend…
Shame about the light.
The Snow Geese didn’t come close…
The White-fronts did. Here are a couple looking miserable in the rain.
A leucistic White-front…
The nearby fields had plenty of geese…
Most of them were Greater White-fronts.
I just can’t escape geese: this lone straggling White-front was in parkland atop a cape!
The Ospreys have returned…not great pics it has to be said.
And near my apartment all the snow has gone…
Other birds around on Monday in the Esan area were Glaucous-winged Gull, Harlequin Duck, lots of Brent Goose and a lone White-tailed Eagle.