30.04 Idylliic Trøndelag - another day in the office

Trøndelag is changing from day to day. Many fields are already ploughed (and manured:) and first grain has already been sown. Geese are still seen feeding on stubble but more and more move to new sown fields. Surprisingly, many geese can be observed on wasted potato fields.

Geese feeding on potato fields

Geese feeding on stubble

At the beginning of the season, geese were observed mainly in smaller flocks, up to few hundreds. Now, several thousands geese can be observed squeezed into one field. Also huge groups can be seen at the roost sites. We drove to Namsos yesterday to look at the habitat visited by Ingunn. We could not find him but if you look at the size of the roosting flock, you may not be surprise why. It was like looking for a needle in a hay stack.

Where is Ingunn?

Only four out of 8 transmitters work properly and this is not a good news. I lost hope that R33 can ever transmit again and we have no idea what happened to this goose. Luckily, R53 is doing well.

And finally, an ecological question, what is it?: