Not sure if this....

[Spooks]

.... is a goose or not? Still learning the different types. Appologies for not posting for quite some time

Hopes its OK

[digidark]

Neat image Spooks. Like the crop

[Chocky]

It's a Whooper / Bewick swan
Nice capture

[Merlin]

Bewicks Swan Spooks.

Excellent 'portrait' and I'm interested in where you took the photograph.

Pete.

[digidark]

Spooks is unlikely to be on for a while Merlin (work). The pic was taken at Washington (Tyne and Wear) Wetlands site.I know cos I was with him

[Merlin]

Thanks for this 'digidark'.

The fact the picture was taken at a WWT Reserve accounts for the ease of which 'Spooks' bird was found. Bewicks/Whooper Swans and Pink-footed Geese all return to these reserves annually but are otherwise not an easy bird to find though perhaps we are lucky enough to be in an area were they do spend their winter months not necessarily on the reserves.

They are a beautiful creature and Sir Peter Scott and many of his colleagues at Slimbridge could identify them all individually by their bill markings......can you believe it.

Pete.