Saturday, March 25, 2006

Broomhill Flash - Lesser! Canada Goose

Dad and I had a good 2 hours at Old Moor Wetland seeing Pintail, Common Sandpiper, Pink Foot and stack of Wigeon and Teal. After a mug of tea and a few purchases in the shop we went to Broomhill Flash. The Flash had planty of Wigeon, Teal, Canada and Grey lag Goose, Tufted and Ruddy Duck and also half a dozen Goldeneye. We had been there an hour when the canada's were spooked from the far bank on to the flash. Dad picked up a couple of canada's swimming towards us. One was a lot smaller then the other (see pics above). I got some photos with the camera phone. I think that the smaller Goose is a variety of Canada Goose called either Lesser Canada or Cackling Goose. Nice find. The only question is whether or not it's an escape... Here's the report and earlier sighting on BirdGuides

1 Comments:

Blogger Simeon,Connor,James,Matthew said...

Looked to see how your blog's getting on. Very nice. That was with a camera phone!!?! Amazing! Lesser Canada Goose is also known as Richardson's Canada Goose, though I don't think it has been split from Canada (yet?). Sort of the equivalent of Black Brant. See ya.

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