We now have confirmation that 5 and probably 6 of our tagged birds have arrived at Pandrup Denmark and appear to have joined up at roosting and feeding areas. Only Ucol 30 has not logged in but we expect it to be with the others.
This confirms that our winter season has now closed.
Thanks to those who monitor this blog and enjoy following the exploits of our Taiga bean geese flock.
See you in the autumn (early October) for our new season.
Attached screen grab from todays tracking at Pandrup.
After spending the night at Darnrig Moss east pool ucol 30 took off on her spring migration to Denmark
We are unsure at this stage if the other collared bird (whit24) went as well but time will tell. It is more than likely that our remaining c60 birds have gone east as well today.
We hope to have observers out in Denmark to give us an update when conditions are suitable for observations to take place.
Meanwhile a couple of screen grabs from the tracking data for you to see.
You will see ucol 30 off Burntisland at 0900 and then fly over Dunbar out into the north sea in a south easterly direction before correcting its flight path at 1600hrs towards the north east heading west coast of Denmark. Last position was at 1900hrs today. It is fabulous to be able to share this information with our blog watchers and it shows the great benefits we have in being able to follow our GPS collared birds.
A visit to the plateau yesterday was successful as I found a flock of 76 bean geese north of Slamannan. This is the highest count for a while but at least we know that they are surviving the cold and snowy conditions of recent times.
Whilst in Denmark, we have noted that the flock there have taken to roosting in the sea off the coast. This behaviour has been noted in previous years and generally occurs when temperatures on land are well below freezing.
I attach a map which shows the information received from some of the GPS tags.
