Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Barnacle geese

Again I spot something interesting whilst only carrying my smaller (and much poorer) camera. The other day we were walking around Carsington Water in Derbyshire when a field of geese caught my eye. The first thing that I noticed was that it contained two different types of Geese. The first looked like normal Canada Geese and the second looked similar but with the black of their necks extending down into a kind of bib (sorry babies on the brain at the moment). They are of course Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis). An unexpected new bird for me.
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I've hardly been outside in the last three weeks!

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