There has been a report of 2 Taiga Geese in the Outer Hebrides on Sat 27th September with the other 5 birds still on North Ronaldsay.
Also a report of 15 Taiga Geese at Deerness Orkney last week.
There has been no sign of birds at Slamannan yet with checks done yesterday and today.
Sadly with no live tags of our birds in Norway and Sweden we have no live information to their position at present.
One of our regular Bean Geese team has located 4 Taiga Bean Geese at 1405 hrs today on Orkney.
They were seen between Holland House and East Loch Park.
We had just checked today on our earliest arrival date for this species at Slamannan, and it was 20th September.
Quite possible we will have birds on the plateau soon.
Dan has been out at Brosjon today and was able to count 190 Bean Geese. Collars V6 and X3 were seen and a bird with a blue ring on left leg.
This was Dan's last count of the autumn at this locality and we are indebted to him for his skill and efforts in recording the movements of Taiga birds at this location.