16 November 2022 - Hollingworth Lake

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316 Pink-footed Geese

Clear, calm, blue skies.

As I walked along Rakewood Road this morning, I suddenly thought I could hear Pinkfeet, though I wasn't certain.  Scanning the sky I noticed a small party of 17 high overhead, flying SW.  I then realised they were the front-runners to another skein, and then over the next couple of minutes several more skeins came over, all presumably part of one bigger movement.  By photographing each group I was able to confirm later on that there had been 316 going over in total

Pink-footed Geese , 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 2500 (view full size image)

Pink-footed Geese , 1/2500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 1000 (view full size image)

Pink-footed Geese, 1/2500 sec, f/4.5, 100 mm, ISO 400 (view full size image)