Geese

[bentaxle]

Anybody lucky enough to see and enjoy the flights of them this time of year chatting to one another

[welshtanner]

They fly over our house regularly and make my day. Don't know where they come from or where they are going! How they manage to fly and honk at the same time amazes me,

[mallyh]

we get hundreds of brent geese and they land in a park not far away

[bentaxle]

welsh
Or what they find to honk about , probably looking down and this years birds shouting Are we nearly there Are we nearly there

[Mamyalynne]

I look out onto water and we get regular visitors, some stay just for a rest and others stay longer - they make tremendous alarm clocks and the in fighting can be quite fascinating to watch too.

[maggiebee]

Skeins of geese fly over my house daily. They come from the reed beds on the Tay near Kingoodie and (I think) fly to Forfar Loch. I'm about 5 miles from Kingoodie and 15 miles from Forfar.

[MartinMillar]

They were late on Islay this year so only got a week to admire their beauty

[iluvmargie]

Yes, and I always wish them God Speed ..

[lady-janine]

How lucky you all are. We only get rooks and herring gulls.

[maggiebee]

Why do geese fly in a V formation? Because the one at the front has the map.

[ladybirder]

How I envy them. I can't chat and move at the same time:-)

[The Builder]

Yes, I watch them going over on their way to the Exe estuary. Like a fool, I usually wave to them.

On a side note, it's well known that keeping a flock of geese is more effective than any guard dogs or security lights.
In my last village, someone had a flock right in the middle of the village.
We never seemed to be troubled with prowlers. ;o)

[rowanwitch]

Lots of Canada geese, they often fly lower than my flat so I usually watch them closer to eyelevel. A few greylags and pink footed in the winter.

I also get massive flocks of gulls flying to the reservoir which is the main winter roost for Birmingham and a lot of the black country. Apparently we have counts of over 10,000 birds in really bad weather. They come in groups but in the morning they leave pretty much by species herring gulls before light black heads as the sun starts to rise.

[Sqad]

Yes, every morning coming from the Marshlands for their breakfast at the Martin Mere Sanctuary.
They fascinate Mrs sqad more than me.

[ladybirder]

Wrong sort of birds eh Sqad?

[Sqad]

ladyBIRD....quite.

[douglas9401]

I remember from Steve Wright In The Afternoon a drop-in of geese calls, later adding a single duck quacking resulting in the comment 'get the duck off'.

Easier going times at the Beeb. :-)

[Buenchico]

Lucky enough? The ruddy things have a nasty habit of waking everyone around here up at ungodly hours of the morning. They make a hell of a row when they fly over our houses on their way to and from the local lake!

(OK, I love them really but they do manage to create far more noise than the army helicopter base down the road does!)