Journey with the Wild Geese
This April, Wild Goose Festival and Dumfries and Galloway move together; alongside 40,000 barnacle geese taking off on their extraordinary journey. Collectively, an 80,000,000 mile effort from Solway to Svalbard. Moving in tandem, side by side, mile by mile, we’ll strive to walk, wheel, scoot and cycle the distance – travelling through nature and into spring.
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Journey with the Wild Geese: A Region-wide Movement Challenge
As the season begins to turn, we prepare to bid farewell to the thousands of barnacle geese that have spent the winter on the Solway. For a few short months each year, around 40,000 of these remarkable birds make the coastline of Dumfries and Galloway their home before beginning the long journey north to their…
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Wild Goose Festival 2025
As the geese prepare for winter and make their return to Dumfries and Galloway, so does this year’s Wild Goose Festival. Since its founding in 2020, the Wild Goose Festival has become a cornerstone of the regional calendar, known for uniting people through creativity, education, and environmental stewardship. Now in its sixth year, the festival…
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Reflections on the Wild Goose Festival
Words and images by Patrick Rooney As a freelance filmmaker, I’ve often had the privilege of working on some really interesting projects. Getting to visit and document activity that is taking place in different communities, seeing first hand what is going on in regions across the country, as well as learning about new subjects and…
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Wild Goose Festival: A Galloway & Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere Sustainable Event Charter Designation
The Wild Goose Festival is proud to announce that we have been awarded the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Sustainable Event Charter for our 2025 season. This designation arrives at a pivotal moment for our festival as we enter our fifth year of operation, celebrating the creativity, place, and nature that make our region special. The…
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A Fond Farewell to the Geese
Words by David Pickett, WWT Caerlaverock April can be a confusing month at WWT Caerlaverock. On a calendar April is smack bang in the middle of spring and seen in black and white like that it should be clear what to expect when you venture out. Instead it is actually like an airport foyer with…
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How Many Geese?
Words and images by David Pickett, WWT Caerlaverock It is 6 am in the morning, dark, cold, still, not quite a frost and I am standing on the edge of one of the largest areas of mud in the UK and I am wondering why I do these things. The alarm went off at 05:00…