Taken on an October evening on Islay with some beautiful mild sunlight, four Barnacle Geese arriving and landing at the RSPB reserve at Gruinart. Loch Gruinart and the dunes at Killinallan just visible in the distance.
Some of Islay’s winter visitors at Gruinart, Barnacle Geese in the front and Greenland White-Fronted Geese behind them.
This view looks rather different now (the picture is from April 2016), as the Machrie Hotel has been completely remodelled over the last few years. The Barnacle Geese are possibly still coming to the same field (if I remember correctly they often return to the same field for many years or even their whole life).
This picture is a different take on a cropped picture I posted a while ago: Barnacle Geese and the Machrie Hotel, Isle of Islay. Which version do you prefer, the cropped view or the wider view with more sky and field?