Simon Rix has been out looking at the bean geese again yesterday and has published some nice pictures on his blog. (oslobirder.blogspot.co.com) I attach one courtesy of Simon. T8 is well known to us as Simon mentions.
It is well worth looking at his blog to get a real flavour of birding in and around Oslo at this time of the year. You will not be disappointed.
Information received from Simon Rix in Norway today confirms that we have a flock of 101 Bean Geese in his area awaiting their final move to Scotland at the end of the month.
In conjunction with the previous news from Sweden courtesy of Dan Managsbo that they have a flock of 146 birds east of Saffle and the Lake Brosjon location means that we have an approx. total of 247 bean geese ready to winter with us.
However there is speculation that some of these birds may decide to stay across the north sea in places like Denmark.
A few of our tagged birds are in both flocks with some juveniles already identified which is helpful at this stage as to what breeding success the birds had in their breeding areas to the north.
