Stand in the right place on a winter’s morning as they fly out to their feeding grounds, or when they return to their roosts for the night, and you’ll probably hear them coming long before you see them. Initially it will be just a distant murmur, then it grows into a faint cackling and clamouring that signals that the geese are on the move.
At first it may only be a small advance party of a few birds that passes overhead and you can hear the wink wink wink call of individuals, but before you know it the sky is filled by V-shaped skein after skein, the sound filling the air, as hundreds, perhaps thousands, of birds stream past. It’s an emotional experience and one of the world’s great wildlife…
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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2020