some fine geese

OK our local Barnacle flock mixes with the Greylags at times -- this week picked up the four attached -- top three one apparently a Greylag x Canada or large Greylag x Barnacle?

next one Greylag x Barnacle,

next 5 down Barnacle x Ross's or Snow ?? there have been two of these in the flock of a few years but only one this week

and then the least obvious a Barnacle x small race Canada? or a 2nd generation hybrid? it is not even that obvious to pick out in the flock.

Barnacles and hybrids

the Humber Barnacle Goose flock contains 3 hybrid type birds; one is large and with grey-brown in the plumage and appears to be a Greylag / Barnacle hybrid as odd broods have been seen in most years; the other two are quite similar with a lot of Barnacle characters and are Barnacle sized and with a similar jizz but are they hybrids or birds with a plumage pigment problem? and if hybrids with what;