Snow Goose

Gary Tapp · **Posted:** Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:12 pm

Short walk around Frieston this afternoon,usual winter duck:Teal,Shoveler,Wigeon lots of Greylag with only 1 Canada (with something wrong with a wing),as we were leaving a Snow goose dropped in(blue Phase) at about 3:30.

John Badley · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:40 pm

Hi Gary,

Had you considered your bird might be this....http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrl ... /aug/06/10?

I thought I saw this bird at Freiston on Friday (only had a quick look from the hide with bins) and it's been seen on the reserve before.

Cheers,

John

Dave Bradbeer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:10 pm

John
The Cleethorpes hybrid has been ever present for a few years now, can't see it being the same bird you have had down there, suggest you have a similar hybrid in your area.

Graham Catley · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:20 pm **Posts:** 1667

The article in the paper is complete twaddle and typifies jo public and the press total lack of comprehension of birds

As Dave says the Clee hybrid accompanies the Barnies around the local area but I have seen them as far away as Covenham. There are two very similar looking birds in the Humber Barnacle flock at Whitton but they were there last week amonst 1190 Barnacles! Most reported Blue Snow Geese are hybrids.

John Badley · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:50 pm

Thanks. Must be more hybrids around than I thought. It looks pretty identical to the photo.

John

Trevor Gunby · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 2:04 pm

Looks very similar to the hybrid I photographed at Kirkby on Bain at the end of August - see pictures in "Discussion Birds" in the Photo Album.

Matthew Harrison · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:22 pm

In February this year I had 2 adult Ross's Geese and 2 Ross's x Barnacle hybrids with 7 Barnacle Geese around the Nene Mouth and in fields near Guy's Head. They did seem to be a very tight knit group however. I'm not suggesting Gary's bird was one of these, but something to be aware of as these flighty birds surely have the potential to go a wandering around the Wash.

As an interesting aside, a Snow Goose shot adjacent to The Wash at Dawsmere (near Gedney Drove End) on 2nd December 1978 had been ringed as a juvenile in a wildfowl collection near Oslo, Norway on 20th July 1976, demonstrating that not all escapes are necessarily local.

Matthew

Paul Sullivan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:17 pm

Posted pics of Barnacle X Ross type? geese seen at Freiston shore on 29/10/2013 and 28/04/2011 in the discussion album.

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