PINK FOOTED AND RED CRESTED

On a cold and grey afternoon I drove over to the Cotswold Water Parks to look for some pink footed geese that had been found amongst a flock of   Canada and greylag geese. It's always good when a location is familiar and on this occasion I knew exactly where to go. 

So after parking in the Waterhay carpark I took the path which leads from it then turned left where it was signposted the Thames path. Several hundred metres along I reached a field on my left where I could see a flock of geese in the distance though getting closer I soon realised they were all Canada geese.  However, a further look revealed further away in front of  the hedge were a smaller number of geese, which appeared to be greylags. . Scanning these quickly, I soon found the trio of pink footed geese, with their darker heads and bills, smaller than the greylags they were with. Having found the geese easily, I continued walking until I reached a lake known as pit 82 where a  recently reported flock of red crested pochard provided another addition to my year list. 

pink footed goose, conveniently showing its pink foot!

flock of Canada geese

red crested pochards