Canadas up North

[flippermaj]

Now here is a puzzle.  I shoot the Northern Firths and we get Canadas up here over the Summer, I think they migrate up from the Lake District.  They are usually all gone by the first week in Oct or earlier.

This year there is a family of five, now 4 and now down to 3 birds that have stayed on one of the firths so far.

Sunday morning I heard Canadas over the house.

Today I am down at the local spot and I have never ever seen a Canada here in the fowling season and what do I see over a dozen Canadas!

All very strange, where would they have come from as they should all have gone by now?

 

Cheers

Flipper

[edenman]

Hi, I think this will be the way of things to come with the canadas, they will stay longer and longer until they stay all year round. This is the case in my neck of the woods, east scotland, where they are staying longer each year before moving on. Seeing a Canada goose up here until the 2000s was very rare but they are welcome addition to game bag - long may it continue.

[flippermaj]

Hi Edelman,  would love to see Canada's here all year round but I don't think the farmers would.  I must admit I have never really understood why the canadas have never established a year round population up here.

[shakin stevens]

 A few Canada geese on the cromarty firth a week or so back, I've seen Canada geese up that way many times in the winter on them shores .

[figgy]

On the north east coast Canada’s have been scarce for last few seasons this year I’ve seen two good skeins staying local of around a hundred per skein.  Great to see and hear.