Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Tundra Bean Goose Wanstead ( local tick )

We hear a Bean Goose had been found over Wanstead flats among a flock of Greylags and a few Egyptian Geese. 
 Brian pops by home and we talk about going to tick the bird but he has too much to do, so we put it on hold until Monday morning, we get a call and Brian is free to go, so we meet up and head to the flats, only 20 minutes away but not at that time of morning and it is slow going.
Parking the car at Alexandra Lake we see no sign of the Geese. So we round the side of the lake and head off over the flats where we soon spot a large flock of Geese.
Picking out the Tundra Bean Goose is easy once its head is up and the bill colour shows and is a bit smaller, so a nice easy year tick and back home in 20 minutes.
Brian not having the best of times at the moment with both his Mother and Father-in-law both 
passed away over the last few weeks. 
So he has a lot of stuff going on and it was nice to see him get a break from it all even if it was only a couple of hours.


The Tundra Bean Goose











































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