Most autumns we get one or two days with decent movements of Pink-footed Geese over Beeley Moor. This year I thought they might have missed us when on 24th September there was a large southerly movement down the east coast with over 12,000 counted passing Spurn Point but today we counted over 1,000 birds mainly heading east and most skeins crossing the moors north of Beeley.
That this was part of a larger movement was confirmed with 3700 counted over Longdendale, in the north of the county, and over 7,000 counted heading east over Wintersett in West Yorkshire.
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| Pink-footed Geese, 9 in the top photo, 65 in the middle and 229 in the bottom |
Traditionally birds passing over Beeley are coming from the NE (Southport area) and heading SE towards the Wash, but for the last couple of years they are more frequently heading east towards the Lincolnshire and perhaps the Humber as the West Yorkshire birds would be doing.
A satellite tagged bird nicely shows this route and why the passage was mainly to the north of us.
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| Route of a recent GPS tagged Pink-footed Goose |
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