greylag

Life - Beckoning ... ________________ Far ... ... Far away There flew A skein ... Of Fabulous Greese ... ... Greylag On a Grey December day ... ... Called And beckoned To me ... In their lovely Tone ... Making me aware Of you ... Not Far away From me My Beloved __________...

Lakescape - 622 Elegant visitors to have during winters ... Another image on that low light December day ... ... they were a little closer ... needing 428 mm to get this minimally cropped image ... ____________________ Anser anser Keoladeo National Park Nharatpur Rajasthan India 13.12.2019

Fly-past

Incoming........

Greylag attacks Barnacle goose and gosling. Baby barnacle under her wings.

Food shortage on the boating lake.

This Greylag looked so beautiful and serene....just had to take a photo

Greylag babies.

Five learning to walk.

Springtime for greylags

Greylag on one leg.

This apparently now resident Greylag just wouldn't turn his head for me, even just a little bit would have been nice. Och well!!! He was there, so I recorded him

Looks like this pair of Greylags are off to examine what the west end of the loch has to offer.

Our regular Greylag was swimming through the channel between the reed bed and the bog bean leading out to the open water of the loch.

More flight practise for me! This doesn't appear to be the same goose as I showed you on Sunday.

.... very different kind. And I had no idea when I took the picture of the swan, that there was a Lapwing and Greylag there too, they were too far away to make out. The white splodge between the swan and greylag is the face of the Lapwing.

In the reeds to the left of the hide was a Greylag. We wondered if it was a female and maybe planning to nest there - she was actually alert watching another one coming in. S/he never moved from the spot all the time I was there However, never saw any further sign of one there so they probably...

..... or a different Greylag. I've not idea of course, but doesn't he look in fine fettle, all set for the coming summer season.

Next to check out the hide visitors was this Greylag, actually looking quite benign for once.

A pretty dreich day at Kinnordy and cold too. I've had to lighten this up a bit (well quite a bit actually).

Briefly back to the water to show you this Greylag. Big guys up close, aren't they

.... well, I really don't know what that water colour is (almost the colour of a dun pony that I was fond of). The Greylag wasn't too co-operative with his head, so in none of the pictures I took of him was his eye visible LOL But I'm intrigued by the colours in this picture and can't think...

... a couple of birds a bit closer to me. This was the only image of the set where both had their heads on view and I rather liked the pose they gave.