This goose comes to Britain in the winter to escape the cold of Iceland and Greenland. There are over 240,000 birds that make this trip each year and numbers are on the increase thanks to a number of factors, including larger fields which makes finding food easier and better protection given at the winter roosts. They feed on vegetable matter including grain, winter cereals, potatoes and grass and although they do graze farmland they seldom do any economic damage.
A truly magical spectacle, especially when thousands of these geese fly directly overhead, with the noise being quite unbelievable!
All digiscoped using Lumix FS15 and Kowa TSN-883 x30
