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[greenergp]

While i was driving to work today i saw my first Skein of Geese flying over, and when i stopped for fuel i had a Skein fly over the petrol station within shot hight, and when driving home at night i saw some more...........looking forward to the numbers building up for next week

[AberFowl]

Pinks? Surely not!

Resident Greylag or Canada moving about the country?

[greenergp]

I did'nt manage to ID them but my Dad told that he has heard Geese flying over the house for the past week in the wee small hours of the night

[AberFowl]

Where in the country are you?

I would imagine resident birds moving about.

[6.5x55SE]

Pinks? Surely not!

Resident Greylag or Canada moving about the country?

That would be my guess also👍 I think the OP is suffering from Goose Fever 😂

[greenergp]

Where in the country are you?

I would imagine resident birds moving about.

They were flying in from the Forth......and i probably do have goose fever

[panoma1]

I agree residents, pinks won't usually start arriving in the UK until after the second/third week in September.

[6.5x55SE]

 

Agree.

Shot my earliest was 11th September last few years it has been between 18th and 21st September.

[Tony G]

The first pinks arrived at Strathbeg loch on the 10th September last year then quite a few 2 weeks later on the full moon The September moon is earlier this year so they may be a bit earlier

[motty]

So, they're not here.

I've been watching plenty of Greylags and canadas moving about inland. I will wait for a month to see decent amounts of pinks.

[TONY R]

A few pinks will start showing up in the third week of september, and build up from then on.

Going to be the best season ever this year. ITS official.!

[Stonepark]

Greys fly off the forth from kincardine bridge the last few weeks, roosting down on the mud banks.

[roostshooter1]

All this talk about geese is making me feel funny lol

[SuperGoose75]

i had a Skein fly over the petrol station within shot hight,

If you Cant ID them at shot height' then maybe its time to brush up on your quarry ID Fella.

[Ttfjlc]

If you Cant ID them at shot height' then maybe its time to brush up on your quarry ID Fella.

I picked up on that as well but I like to believe there's a simple explanation.

[marsh man]

I picked up on that as well but I like to believe there's a simple explanation.

Might have been early dawn , late dusk or under the moon ...... take your pick

[panoma1]

Might have been early dawn , late dusk or under the moon ...... take your pick

 

Learn the calls of the different geese!...........the call is often the first thing you hear, which will usually give em away! In this case If no calls audible..........my guess would be Greys!

[subsonicnat]

Yep,Feral this early..

[Stonepark]

Yep,Feral this early..

Native wild greylags....... Feral is escaped domesticated such as Canada's

[Penelope]

Don't believe Canadas were ever domesticated; ornamental certainly.

 

Native wild greylags....... Feral is escaped domesticated such as Canada's

[marsh man]

Learn the calls of the different geese!...........the call is often the first thing you hear, which will usually give em away! In this case If no calls audible..........my guess would be Greys!

I have been lucky enough to enjoy the sound of geese all around me for well over 50 years and yes you are right the call is normally the first thing you hear , but that is not always the case as I have seen 100s of geese that have never made a sound .

 

Also the Buckenham marshes near where I live is one of the strongholds of the Bean Goose in this country and certainly worth a day out to watch and hear them at close quarters , and I wonder how many wildfowlers old and new could tell what they are by sound alone on a winters night in poor light , could you ?

[Richie10]

Seen more geese than ever this year, Greylags moving where previously they were pretty scarce. Population of Geese look better than Duck so far this year...

[TONY R]

Its just 6 bdays to go everyone is itching to be off, so im up for playing devils advocate here, regarding pinks here this early.

Cant say i ever saw any this early in 50 years but i am also pretty sure that every pink wont be healthy enough to return to the breeding grounds in the svalbard arcapeligo etc, some may be ill or injured woonded etc, now dispite the bird surveys some must have at some point met up and had a clutch or two over the years on these shores.

Not saying we got a resident population or anything like that, but there must be few pinks some where on these shores or when thdey get fit do they make the trip back home to the breeding groungs alone. ?

WELL> ?

[greenergp]

If you Cant ID them at shot height' then maybe its time to brush up on your quarry ID Fella.

Give us a break!! i had about a 3 to 4 second view of them before they disappeared over the roof canopy of the petrol station.

 

BTW i saw another fight this morning they were Canadas

[shakin stevens]

Its just 6 bdays to go everyone is itching to be off, so im up for playing devils advocate here, regarding pinks here this early.

 

Cant say i ever saw any this early in 50 years but i am also pretty sure that every pink wont be healthy enough to return to the breeding grounds in the svalbard arcapeligo etc, some may be ill or injured woonded etc, now dispite the bird surveys some must have at some point met up and had a clutch or two over the years on these shores.

Not saying we got a resident population or anything like that, but there must be few pinks some where on these shores or when thdey get fit do they make the trip back home to the breeding groungs alone. ?

WELL> ?

Had one pinkfoot on our flight pond for over two years, usually shows up early spring , stays with the Greylag geese till September, never see it again till spring.

 

We do shoot pinks on the odd occasion round flight ponds at newark on trent in the season, had 3 last year.