Tuesday, 25 September 2018

News of Tag30 in Norway

The time has come to open up my winter blog on the bean geese flock that visit the Slamannan area in Falkirk.

Tag30 has recently made a flight south from the Glomma River north of Akershus and is now just north of Vigeland south Norway. (see picture below) I am sure the next spell of suitable weather will see our flock move to Scotland.

We have been able to recover the GPS collar 27 that was used last year after the bird was killed by we think a Golden Eagle.

We had a visit  recently from Adriaan de Jong from Umea in northern Sweden who studies another flock of Taiga Bean Geese.

We showed him around the Slamannan area and had a very interesting discussion on the type of farming land that is available to our birds compared with his patch in north east Sweden.