First geese of the autumn

With the possibility of a NW wind, I opted for a couple of hours or so seawatching this morning, but with the wind actually being no better than WNW, things were disappointingly quiet. Very little was moving at all with two and a half hours producing little more than three Red-throated Divers, three Teal, 25 Fulmar plus very small numbers of southerly moving Rock and Meadow Pipits, Chaffinch and Linnets. Opting to have a look at the cover crop on my way back to the car, the tell tale sounds of geese calls revealed the presence of a flock of 115 Pink-footed Geese flying south. These are the first of the autumn here. Work commitments took me onto The Carrs later in the morning, where I saw a flock of 54 heading over Flixton. With reports of a large movement over Spurn it seems the first real push of Pink-footed Geese along the Yorkshire coast is taking place today.

Pink-footed Geese heading south over Long Nab