Brent goose.

[Mystical Potato Head]

Just spotted a solitary Brent goose grazing on the bit of grass at Thurso harbour behind the water treatment plant.It has a small white neck patch so is definately a Brent.

[kas]

Poor thing must have been one of the forty strong flock that flew in on Tuesday evening. They were going round and round the bay for quite a while and I was wondering if it could have been because of this poor one had landed, were they waiting to see if it could carry on? I do not think it can fly, but apart from that it seems healthy enough. I have reported it.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/Brent.jpg

[nemosia]

Just spotted a solitary Brent goose grazing on the bit of grass at Thurso harbour behind the water treatment plant.It has a small white neck patch so is definately a Brent.

Yes, pale-bellied brent. Here's a couple of shots taken on Thursday.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i160/nemosia/Caithness/brentgoose04.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i160/nemosia/Caithness/brentgoose03.jpg

Didn't seem able to fly, maybe exhausted or injured.

[Mystical Potato Head]

Lovely shots,i see there are now 2 of them down on the shore at the end of the breakwater.

[tonkatojo]

Years ago decades even, I used to go on geese shoots in the solent, what is the law NOW regarding this, I ask out of interest only.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0929Caithness10042-1.jpg

Spotted today in the surf at Castletown Beach, think they are also Light Fronted Brent Geese.

[Mystical Potato Head]

Great shot Lizz.

[majic]

There is a goose in my field i dont think its a brent goose it has no white on its neck it seems to be only one and it can fly it hangs around with the chickens.