Migrating Canadian Geese Winter Cumbria 2010

As I was cycling along some country roads near to Easton, cumbria where an over head plane spooked a flock of migrating Canadian Geese. They circled around the area often splitting up and reforming making a surreal sound. I captured some of it on my camera. if you want to read more of the event please visit my blog at http://kevnsp.blogspot.com

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Travel & Events

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• canadian
• geese
• migration
• birds
• solway
• firth
• easton
• cumbria
• uk

[kevnsp]

This is terrible news, first the badgers and now the geese, what are these people thinking of.

[kevnsp]

You can read a description of this video in my blog at kevnsp.blogspot.com/2010/02/in­ner-world-of-migration.html it will fill you in on the back ground. Recently I was at the site where this video was taken and I noticed that large flocks on what looked like the same type of bird was migrating eastwards. I thought it was a bit early for them to migrate, maybe they were heading for another location in the UK (?).

[Melo67]

Thanks for sharing this amazing video! I was just reading posts by some friends complaining about goose poop on the park walkways and wished they just go away and I wish that they could appreciate the perilous journey these magnificent creatures make every year and that's when I found your video and I had to share it with them!! I had to remind them that the geese probably feel the same way with us for polluting the water ways and land with spills and human dumping... Thanks again for sharing!!!

[kevnsp]

@Melo67

I agree with you when i watched them they seemed to be a collective communication, very intelligent, to have travelled so far and to stay together. it was a great sight to see so large birds behaving like starlins, moving together always staying close. a great experience.

[BritNostalgia]

This is a great video. Thanks very much. It is unfortunate that when the geese return to Cumbria this year to roost they are going to be greeted with shotguns! Bastards!

[goosehonker67]

and for the record canadian geese will deficate once every eight minutes... while on the ground and do not at all while in flight.... thanks again for sharing your vid... its pretty awsome

[goosehonker67]

you are watching a mixture of canadian and snow geese... it is an awsome sight and what a display that nature gave you.... geese are imprinted as soon as they are born to return to their nesting spot up north... the reason they are wintering on the eastern shore is simple.... food....a canadian goose can migrate 1500 miles in a 24hr period..they are able to do this because of the thiner air and prevaling winds... usually a north or north west wind in our area....

[1john07]

I think you'll find that you were actually watching pink footed geese.