On Sunday 24^th February a second hybrid Goose was present at Scotney in addition to the hybrid Goose that Ian Barnard accurately describes on The Birds Of Sussex ‘Scarce and Rare Bird News’ webpage.

Although superficially more-closely resembling an intermediate white and blue morph Snow Goose Chen caerulescens than the bird Ian describes, note the bird’s anomalous tiny bill lacking a ‘grinning patch’. Whilst the size of the bill is perhaps suggestive of a Ross’s Goose Chen rossii, it lacks the dark nape, neck and the white wing coverts of the dark morph of that species and it is clearly too large (note its size in comparison to the accompanying Greylag Geese Anser anser).

David Cooper