Monday, January 28, 2008

Pink feet




Two flocks of pink footed geese over Jumble Hole at 11:40am today, about 7 minutes apart. 280+ birds in the first flock, 240+ in the second.

Both very high up, and heading west. Sorry for the duff mobile phone photo!

5 comments:

Nick Carter said...

Had at least 4 groups go over Midgley during the night.

Bill Aspin said...

For info, a big movement over East Lancs today. See ELOC website.

Cheers,

Bill.

Hugh Firman said...

Thanks for that, Matt,

One of our volunteers rang up very excitedly at 11.45am today to say he had just seen 4 flocks of about 100 birds.

Hugh

Sandra said...

There's an interesting thread on Bird Forum today about the sudden movement of geese over the country.

Sorry I didn't go out on the terrace at work half an hour earlier than I did - I may have seen them then over Mytholmroyd?!

Matt Bell said...

When I picked them up they looked as if they may have come from the Midgley/ Thornton Moor direction. As they were so high up (and noisy!) you could well have seen them in Mytholmroyd.