Out for a duck
Oct 21, 2020
3 minutes
THE first small skein of pink-footed geese arrived early in north Norfolk this year, on September 6. I can say this with certainty, because their talking woke me that morning. As the angry kek-kek skreeek of excited sandwich terns in March—on their return to these shores from Africa—heralds the approach of summer, so the confidential yelp and chatter of pink feet sounds a call to arms, a warning of the onset of winter.
Now, in early October, a couple of northerly storms have blown in growing numbers of
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