While we were staying on the North Norfolk coast we did see some huge skeins of geese flying very high and flying inland, some of the skeins had well over sixty geese in them too. What species they were I have no idea you'd need a wildfowler or an ornithologist to tell you that, all I know is that they were geese.
The geese and swans already arriving in West Norfolk for the winter so if they are migrating here in mid-October maybe it is an omen and we are in for a really cold and old-fashioned winter. I don't think that this copper-bottomed and verdigris covered goose will be too worried but he is heading west just the same.
One surprising thing is that nobody has used him for target practice yet with .17, .22 or shotgun, plenty of road signs were scarred with target acquisition and practice.
Some rural Norfolk traditions must be falling out of favour.
"I'm heading west, on the National Express, and it's hard to get by when your arse is the size of a small country." They don't write lyrics like that anymore.
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