East Stobswood

Yesterday afternoon I called in at East Stobswood to see if the Geese were there but there was only a large flock of Common Gulls. I had a walk around the tip and as it was late afternoon I thought there might be some Short eared Owl activity but there wasn't. As it was mild there were very few birds here other than Jay and a single Snipe. There must be plenty of small rodents here as there were 7 Kestrels and a Buzzard hunting the open grassy areas. As the light was failing 2 large flocks of Geese flew towards East Stobswood to roost, one from the North and the other from the East. I drove around and there was just enough light left to put the  scope on them. The birds from the North were all Canadas with nearly 400 of them, the other flock were nearly all Pink footed Geese, over 700 with 2 White fronted and 2 Barnacles.