Greylag Geese

We are very fortunate to have a large flock of greylag geese on our loch.

This morning the Mum and babies were out for a stroll, I caught them in the next croft through our window, otherwise I would never had got so close.

Okay stop bragging. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Do have to say that last week coming home from town, I drove the car up the drive. David said to me stop and there sat on the side of the fence was a kestrel. Now bearing in mind we are a built up neighbourhood it does make me wonder why so close to us. Unless it is to do with the amount of wildlife it can pick up. We have far too many rats for my liking appearing. The large farm around the corner is now overgrown, the barns pulled down and the farmland is being churned up to turn in to a housing estate. Yuk. Plus we had a derilict house at the end of our road and that land was churned over and the house built back up, so that it turn moved out the rats and in to our lands. So perhaps its a good thing to have these birds arriving to help sort out the rat infestation.