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Wednesday , October 21 2026

‘I have 100 scarecrows and can’t protect my crops from geese’

Marty is angry that the stoat project receives more funding than the money given to control geese numbers.

A report, published by the Scottish government in February 2024, said that in 2022 the Orkney population of resident greylag geese numbers was approximately 24,000.

It agreed to fund measures to control numbers of resident greylag geese on some of Scotland’s islands in 2022.

It provided £50,000 over two years to schemes for Orkney, Lewis and Harris, Uist, Tiree and Coll.

“I’ve never actually met a farmer that’s said that the stoats are a problem, yet the geese are just an absolute pest,” Marty said.

“I actually think it affects my mental health, trying to keep the geese out of our barley and our bare.

“We have a hundred scarecrows, we put out scrap cars, we have gas guns and scary men.”


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