News Update on Tag27 and Tag30

Updated news from Pandrup Denmark is good as Tag30 has come back online and giving us information on its whereabouts.

It and presumably others are still west of Pandrup waiting to move north when the weather improves.
I have no information available on flock size at this location.

Tag27 is south of the usual staging post at Akerhus on the Glomma River. It is presently on the Glomma river South west of the town of Mysen. Flock size is possibly around 80 birds.

Further news will be posted when available.

News from Simon Rix in Norway today 21 March 2018

Hi all bloggers

Exciting news received from Simon in Oslo today.

Norway is experience very cold weather and lots of snow in and around Oslo. Never one to be deterred he took a trip to the Glomma River this morning.

Arriving at 0945 he found 11 bean geese at the rivers edge trying to feed on vegetation.

At 0958 this group were disturbed (not surprisingly) by a hunting White Tailed Eagle which took a fancy to one of them but didn't manage it.

By 1030 numbers of bean geese had gone up to 76 with 1 Pinkfoot in attendance

He was witnessing the movement from Denmark which we had been waiting on but unsure of when this would happen due to the extremely cold conditions in Denmark.

The arrival of birds was as follows - 11-13-15-16-76-78

Collars seen so far - 3Y, 7V plus 4 Juvs and probably T8, S8

His blog (oslobirder.blogspot.co.uk) will be updated soon with pictures and possibly a video clip of this arrival in Norway.

Latest update on Tag27 is that it is still in Denmark.

Update on Tag27 spring movement to Denmark

I now have an image of the migration track for Tag27 et al who moved to Denmark between 20/22 February.

You will see this is a more southerly route than Tag30 and no doubt was due to northerly winds blowing the birds south. As can be seen they soon re-directed themselves to Pandrup in Northern Denmark to join up with the others.

The weather in Norway and southern Sweden is similar to what we have had in the UK. Deep snow everywhere so the next step in their movement may well be delayed until the weather improves.

The red dot is Tag30's position and shows the Danish staging place.