Our colleagues at University of Exeter have just released this video on youtube. Highly recommended, as it gives a great flavour of what the geese get up to all the year round, not just when they are on our local patch over the winter.
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Saturday, 5 November 2016
Yo-yo Bird...
One of our GPS collared birds has been having a very strange autumn!!
7VBY was first seen by myself at Ballykelly, on Lough Foyle, on the north coast of Northern Ireland, with a mate, 9ABY, on 14 September. Didn't even notice it had a collar (I'm a legs man!!). Alex Portig then recorded it as a collared bird down on Strangford Lough on 23 September, but on 02 October and 03 October, reported by photographs from Gary Platt and David Hill respectively, it was back at Ballykelly. The photograph of the bird landing in (how do these folks manage such sharpness!) was sent in by David:
Now, tonight, news from one of our southerly outposts, the Incleville Saltmarshes at Regneville in Normandy, France, from Alain Livory and Rosalyne Coulomb, that 7VBY has arrived there safely, together with 9ABY.
7VBY was first seen by myself at Ballykelly, on Lough Foyle, on the north coast of Northern Ireland, with a mate, 9ABY, on 14 September. Didn't even notice it had a collar (I'm a legs man!!). Alex Portig then recorded it as a collared bird down on Strangford Lough on 23 September, but on 02 October and 03 October, reported by photographs from Gary Platt and David Hill respectively, it was back at Ballykelly. The photograph of the bird landing in (how do these folks manage such sharpness!) was sent in by David:
Now, tonight, news from one of our southerly outposts, the Incleville Saltmarshes at Regneville in Normandy, France, from Alain Livory and Rosalyne Coulomb, that 7VBY has arrived there safely, together with 9ABY.
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
Birds on the Move...
I was out at the north end of Strangford Lough this morning, and couldn't help noticing that numbers appeared to have dropped significantly.
This observation has been backed up by a text this evening from Patricia Watson, reporting a massive increase on her home patch at North Bull, Dublin.
I wonder whether similar increases are being experienced elsewhere?
This observation has been backed up by a text this evening from Patricia Watson, reporting a massive increase on her home patch at North Bull, Dublin.
I wonder whether similar increases are being experienced elsewhere?
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