The first of the smews, for this winter, have turned up with a female fishing on the loch today. The numbers of geese are higher than last week with the lucky individuals, on the goose watch this morning, seeing 14,000 pink footed geese coming off the roost. There is a great variation of ducks on the loch with great views of pintail and shoveler along with an abundance of teal, wigeon, tufted duck, golden eye and a great number of great crested grebes. A group of whooper swans are still present on the old flood with even greater amounts of them on the loch, between here and Findatie.
I never managed up the hill today as the visitor centre was really busy with people eager to see GEESE. Why don't you visit to see one of the greatest spectacles in nature?