geese (1 Viewer)

[jonafly]

Is the white one snow or ross', and the big one between the grey-legs?

 

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Jonafly,

The big one is an escaped farmyard goose (domesticated Greylag).

The white one I am fairly sure is a Snow Goose, I think I can just see the black 'grin' line on the bill, and the bill looks fairly heavy too. Most probably also an escape in Holland too (particularly if, as it looks, the pic was taken in summer), but the occasional wild bird may turn up in winter if you are lucky.

Michael

 

[Charles Harper]

Yes, the bill is too big (though it is extemely foreshortened in a couple of pictures by its angle away from the camera) and the neck too long for Ross's. Ross's is a very petite goose.

 

[promisingplayer]

Hi Jonafly,

I've tried to look at the pictures on all three of your postings, but they do not appear to work. Would you please repost the pictures, if possible?

Thanks, Kate

 

[jonafly]

images

Soory Kate,

But they're alright. Everybody else can see them. Do you have your setup right?

 

[helenh]

Re: images

Soory Kate,

But they're alright. Everybody else can see them. Do you have your setup right?

Are they all supposed to be superimposed on one another? If so then I can see them (but the image is very confused) - but if not then I have the same problem as Kate.

 

[jonafly]

just look at the white one. Is it snow or ross (they say it's snow)

 

[HH75]

Hi Jonafly,
Would agree that the white goose is a Snow,probably an escape?
Harry H

 

[Charles Harper]

Helen and Kate-- That's the way I viewed them too. I thought it was just an artistic collage, and ignored the superimpositions. The Snow Goose is quite identifiably visible.