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.
