Escapee !

Pennington Flash - 20.8.2018

With all the Kingfisher action going on in the Horrocks hide it's easy to overlook the presence of the Egyptian Goose that appeared a number of days ago, as I understand there were originally two geese that turned up but today there's only one present.

Egyptian Geese are to be found in sub-Sahara Africa and the Nile Valley (Opus) and were imported to bird collections in the UK, like other species such as Mandarin Duck, Ruddy Duck have escaped and have successfully bread in several locations of the UK, I guess these birds could well be breeding in locally within the region.

The Kingfisher has disappeared through to the small pool to my right so my attention turns to the goose that's come close the edge of the channel in just front of the hide, between the dull browns of the goose, the colourless water and the now flat light it dosen't make for a great image but at least it's a record of the bird I haven't seen too often in the wild.

Egyptian Goose