Our first full roost count took place yesterday morning. Groups of bleary eyed staff and volunteers stumbled into key positions at 0530 to wait for the geese! The teams at the southern and western count points had quite a tricky tie with geese moving between roosts sites prior to actually leaving the reserve to feed. I was at the northern end an had the difficult task of keeping track of the geese moving north - my final contribution was NINE birds out of a total of 10560, I managed to count them several times and am quietly confident that I got my part of the tally right!
Dom