It is also a popular watering hole to gaggles of geese which fly in from time to time. |
Skies were clear over South Sligo and East Mayo as skeins of wild geese winged their way towards the west coast. |
The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb. |
Skylarks, wheatears, pipits and greylag geese fill any silences that remain. |
It provides winter habitat for 15 million waterbirds, more than 400,000 geese, and 5 million ducks. |
The flooded jheels ensure sheltered feeding and refuge for countless thousands of geese, ducks, storks, herons and waders. |