Barnacle Geese Branta leucopsis - In A Flap
These three Barnacle Geese are getting in a bit of a flap about their field neighbours (Wigeon, Teal, Egyptian Geese) with whom they were feeding close to the coast in Norfolk. A winter visitor to Britain, they breed in Greenland, Spitsbergen and Arctic Russia but the ones i saw here may have been part of an introduced resident population rather than the huge migratory flocks seen in Scotland although a few from Siberia that winter in western Europe have been known to cross the North Sea to reach eastern Britain in cold winters.
Thank you all for your kind responses.
Barnacle Geese Branta leucopsis - In A Flap
These three Barnacle Geese are getting in a bit of a flap about their field neighbours (Wigeon, Teal, Egyptian Geese) with whom they were feeding close to the coast in Norfolk. A winter visitor to Britain, they breed in Greenland, Spitsbergen and Arctic Russia but the ones i saw here may have been part of an introduced resident population rather than the huge migratory flocks seen in Scotland although a few from Siberia that winter in western Europe have been known to cross the North Sea to reach eastern Britain in cold winters.
Thank you all for your kind responses.