Wild Goose Chase

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yesterday I was at the Inch Levels on a wild goose chase.

There are reports of 2 Taiga Bean geese and 5 Greenland white-fronted geese.

All I saw were Greylags and Canada geese with 100s of Whoopers.

A small group a Brents were at the west dam wall.

On the small island south of where Inch Road crosses the water there 100s of Golden plover putting on great aerial displays. Good numbers of Lapwing, Teal, Widgeon, Goldeneye, Greylags and small number of Shovelers.

Mark
Antrim town

Half-cocked

Did you by any chance check the Brents for colour rings?

swifts need our help!

none had rings

Mark

Traonach

swifts need our help! wrote: »

yesterday I was at the Inch Levels on a wild goose chase.

There are reports of 2 Taiga Bean geese and 5 Greenland white-fronted geese.

All I saw were Greylags and Canada geese with 100s of Whoopers.

A small group a Brents were at the west dam wall.

On the small island south of where Inch Road crosses the water there 100s of Golden plover putting on great aerial displays. Good numbers of Lapwing, Teal, Widgeon, Goldeneye, Greylags and small number of Shovelers.

Mark
Antrim town

Bean geese can be hard spotted when with loads of greylags. The first Bean (Taiga) goose I ever saw was in your part of the World in Armagh, 2006. Took 4 visits to fing the divils:o.

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Heard this evening that the Bean geese were among the Greylags that were feeding with the swans on the stubble field with the giant straw bales