After the excitement of yesterday I returned to Martin Mere today to find that there had been something of a wader clearout. I was more than compensated by the sight of the first pink-footed geese of the winter, with 21 on Woodend Marsh. The first arrived yesterday when there were 10 birds, but I didn't see them.
Pink-footed geese usually start arriving in the second week of September, with the main build up by mid October, but there are often a few early arrivals such as this. Even so, these are my earliest ever and the first I have ever seen in August
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