Flying Home

Now it's Autumn we have these skeins of geese flying over every night I recon at a quick count that there is somewhere between 60 and 100 geese in each lot and we get between 5 and 8 lots going over our house.  They fly out in a morning to Fairburn Ings, St Aidens country park lakes, Allerton Bywater Lakes,  and other places then around 7.30 to 8 pm they return. Soon they will fly off to wherever they spend winter. At the moment they make for the fields and  Irrigation Lake of a local farmer who unfortunately is not in harmony with them and in Spring when they returned he was shooting them  but although they were disturbed for awhile they are back. We love them, kids wait to see them on a night it's an amazing sight and the sound of them honking, it's reckoned there are around 2000 of them altogether. Canada, Greylag and pink footed geese are mostly the ones that we see. Someone did say that the BBC's Spring and Autumn watch were interested but the farmer had disturbed them too much.  Needless to say no one likes the man.