Pink-footed Geese autumn 2019

It is now early November, and numbers of staging Pink-footed Geese Anser brachyrhynchus (N=kortnebbgås) have dropped considerably, as temperatures creep below zero and the geese deplete the spilled grain on the cereal fields. I managed a couple of trips to Levanger and three trips to Selbu to watch geese in October, and below are some of my favourite photos of Pink-feet from those trips:

A flock of migrating Pink-feet, with one Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis), Levanger, October 2019

Leaving the roost at Selbusjøen, Selbu, October 2019.

Waves of geese whiffling in to cereal fields south of Selbusjøen, October 2019.

It is amazing how pairs can stick together in the apparent chaos within flocks. Selbu, October 2019.

A flock on cereal fields, some feeding, some resting and some preening. Selbu, October 2019

Nice with a good wing-stretch, Eidsøra near Levanger, October 2019

Just how many eyes does a Pink-footed goose have?