Shirley Roulston
Well-known member
Along the Menai Strait's on the Caernafon side, last winter and this Autumn I have seen a large flock of Brent Geese.
There was one goose that I saw that was had a ring and again a different goose this year. Someone put me in touch with a man in Ireland where they belived that was where the geese had been rung. Sure enough, there are a group of people ringing and studing the Brent Geese.
The geese breed in Greenland ( I think) then fly down to Ireland and then some of them fly across the Irish sea to North Wales where they will winter around Caernafon, the stretch of water called the Menai Strait's. The ring has bold numbers which repeat all the way round and the goose I saw this year was CHRY, known to be seen locally in the area.
There are seen better when the tide is out and they graze where there is a lot of seaweed.
There was one goose that I saw that was had a ring and again a different goose this year. Someone put me in touch with a man in Ireland where they belived that was where the geese had been rung. Sure enough, there are a group of people ringing and studing the Brent Geese.
The geese breed in Greenland ( I think) then fly down to Ireland and then some of them fly across the Irish sea to North Wales where they will winter around Caernafon, the stretch of water called the Menai Strait's. The ring has bold numbers which repeat all the way round and the goose I saw this year was CHRY, known to be seen locally in the area.
There are seen better when the tide is out and they graze where there is a lot of seaweed.
