Blown out the water by an alien ‘raptor’
February offers an annual treat for wildfowlers. Game shooters have put away their guns, while coastal fowlers relish the best sport of the season during the shortest month. Inland, you sense the change of season with snowdrops heralding the approach of spring. Not so on the foreshore. February, despite longer days, is often the coldest month and winter was still showing its teeth with snow on the foothills of Eryri this year.
A fellow fowler reported geese, mainly greylags, flighting from the estuary to nearby fields each morning. It was unusual for geese to be here at this time of year because they prefer the open fields along the coast. Here, they’re rarely disturbed and can find ample grazing as well as numerous splashes for some anserine R&R.
If I could get into position between where the geese were roosting and
