The influx of geese from the continent continues apace amid impressive scenes
at Cockersand Abbey just south of Lancaster today, with at least 68 Russian
white-fronted geese and 60 barnacles in amongst 1000s of pink-feet. Thirty
Russian white-fronts were in the main pink-foot flock just north of the abbey,
with another 38 just east of Crook farm a little further north. All but three are in the photos. I didn't have a scope with me so may well have
missed a few more white-fronts, especially 1st winters, so goodness know how many there were in
total.
The barnacle geese are also here in unprecedented numbers and will have originated from the same areas as the white-fronts. These are not from the Svalbard population which winters on the Solway or from the Greenland population which I see every year on Barra and overwinters on the Hebrides, these are from the Russian population which overwinters in Germany and Holland.
At least 27 Russian white-fronts are in this photo.
Meanwhile 38 Russian white-fronts were here, just east of Crook farm.
Russian white-fronted geese with Cockersand Abbey on the left.
Whooper swans.
Whooper swans with a ringed juvenile. This male bird was ringed at Hrappsstaðaselstjörn, Iceland on 8th August 2025.
Cockersand Abbey.
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