A fresh update from Dan Mangsbo in Sweden who has been out again at Lake Brosjon.

 Dan has managed to visit Lake Brosjon again and has reported seeing a flock of 218 Bean Geese. 

This a good number and he thinks this is a maximum count for this time of the year. 

  Migration out of Norway in the autumn 1991

                                 

 The autumn season is upon us and we have news from Simon in Norway and Dan in Sweden about our Taiga Bean Geese autumn movement.
Simon has received information from a fellow birder that 50 taiga bean geese have been seen in a usual field system north of Oslo. This was on the 23rd of August.

Dan in Sweden has also been busy in the field and has seen a total of 160 taiga bean geese including 13 juveniles plus one collared bird V6. One family group of 6 goslings were seen.

The following map showing the movements of taiga been geese in 2021 between Scotland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden gives a great image for the flight details of this flock.

Further update from Dan Mangsbo in Sweden

 Fresh news update by Dan yesterday.

On a visit to Lake Brosjon he recorded a taiga bean goose flock of 220 birds. He also identified V6 and a partner and leg ring Y4 also with a partner. 

This is a very good total of birds and many thanks to Dan for his observations. 

News from Dan Mangsbo in Sweden about Taiga Bean Geese

 Fresh news in today from Dan who has been out looking for Taiga Bean Geese at Brosjon. He recorded 33 birds on 8 March and on the 14th the flock total had risen to 137. No collars or leg rings were seen. 

Thanks to Dan for his work in looking for our birds on their spring migration and reporting his findings to us.

News from Simon Rix in Norway about the arrival of part of our flock near Oslo

 We have had confirmation from Simon Rix that he has been out looking for our bean geese and has managed to take some super pictures and movie film of our birds on his patch.

It is all available to see on Simon's blog, see Oslobirder.blogspot.com

I can recommend viewing it if you follow or are interested in the Taiga Bean Geese that winter near Falkirk.

Yearly report for 2024/25 now available.

 We have changed the format of our annual reports and we now have available the 24/25 report available at 

https://sites.google.com/view/scotlands-bean-geese/home

This is a simplified report than previous but contains all the facts of the winter period which is of interest to birders that follow this species in the UK.

Angus

Fresh update on Spring movement of our flock

 We discovered within the last few days that bean geese had turned up at one of their roost pools on the plateau.

Billy Thomson and I went out today and low and behold found a flock of 88 birds including V8, one of our birds that has a collar on it. 

It would seem to us that the flock had left us when we thought, but ran into the bad weather in the north sea and diverted somewhere out at sea or on land, then decided to return to Slamannan and await another weather window. 

This behaviour had been noted some years ago when a family group of birds landed in Orkney,then the next day flew to Caithness, and then next day to Slamannan. They later awaited better weather before they eventually moved to Denmark.