Solace Day 6 Hybrid Goose

We had lunch at the garden centre and followed that with another visit to the wildlife trust reserve a place we really like and enjoy at every opportunity.  As you walk away from the reception area/café there is a large pond/lagoon in front of you.  Wildfowl being intelligent  they tend to gather around that area in the hope of being fed.

Among the Canada geese was a single Greylag goose and this individual.  The bird was clearly neither.  Waterfowl tend to hybridise readily.  Even without the clue of of a Greylag being present I would have guessed at the parentage.  The pink feet were the first clue, Canadas have black feet.  Similarly the beak of a Canada is black while Greylag are pink.  The white "chinstrap" is larger and not as clearly demarked as a Canada.  Finally the breast is a different shade being greyer and mottled.