Will Levi Marshall said "The foreshore of Dumfries and Galloway has brought me many hours of pleasure. One of its principal attractions for me is the overwintering wildfowl. It is pretty hard to describe sitting 20 feet under a circling flock of hundreds of barking barnacle geese on a frosty morning as the sun rises. The arrival of the geese never ceases to amaze me and I note it in my diary every year. Indeed the concept of migration is a hard one to grasp and the sheer distances involved are difficult to imagine.
A sense of place is important in creating the special out of the mundane. I propose collecting rocks from the far distance nesting sites of the different species of geese. These stones would approximately weigh the same as an adult bird, and allow a real and tangible connection to the journey. The rocks would be tethered on a wooden plinth with an information plaque and directional arrow. Passers by could lift the rocks feel the weight and look out over the imagined miles to their origin."
A sense of place is important in creating the special out of the mundane. I propose collecting rocks from the far distance nesting sites of the different species of geese. These stones would approximately weigh the same as an adult bird, and allow a real and tangible connection to the journey. The rocks would be tethered on a wooden plinth with an information plaque and directional arrow. Passers by could lift the rocks feel the weight and look out over the imagined miles to their origin."
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