What is this one?

[Buckshot]

Saw this at the weekend, Mum, Dad and 3 kids were grazing along the river bank.
Not seen this type before, can anyone identify it please.

Sorry about the pic, although it was only a couple of yeards from me my phone hasn't got zoom !

Cheers

Mark

 

[falling rain]

Can't see the pic Mark. IT bods here have set the settings. (on the computer, not on the forum) I never get to see ANY of the pictures people post. I don't think I can change them as they're locked by IT.

 

[stovie]

Looks like an Egyptian Goose...try this for comparison

Egyptian Goose

 

[scanker]

That looks a good match to me stovie.

 

[Ferret]

yes it is an egyptian goose

 

[Buckshot]

That's the one !
Cheers Stovie :You_Rock_

 

[Marts]

That looks like it was taken with a Sony Erikson to me

 

[Ahjno]

Are they native to the British Isles / Western Europe? As I've seen them near uni ... for about 3 years now (every year with aprox. 3-4 chicks). Before I'd never seen them before in my life
'My' geese had 4 chicks, and are growing really fast! Hadn't seen them for about a week and they weren't babies anylonger: feather pack is turning like their parents, grown bigger, etc.
Defensive mum (or dad) too!

 

[BorderReiver]

Escapes from collections in the UK.

 

[RAPPLEBY2000]

without a shadow of a doubt!
we get alot of them visiting the Norfolk broads(manmade lakes from digging out peat)

i was speaking to a nature warden about these egyptian geese and they are so called because the markings around the eye area look just like the eye make up of the ancient egyptian pheroes and leaders like cleopatra (sorry about the spelling).

 

[Buckshot]

That looks like it was taken with a Sony Erikson to me

Spot on Marts - well done.
K750i in fact.

 

[Marts]

And from the angle of the light I'd say it was taken at about half past two in the afternoon (given the current declination in the South-West of the UK)

Oh and from the look of the water I'd say it was taken on Sunday.

Close Mark?

 

[scanker]

I'd go more for 2.45, but you're close. 1/128 shutter from the movement of the water at F/2.8, ISO-100.

 

[Ketchup]

Escapes from collections in the UK.

Here in Brussels, egyptian geese are considered a pest. They compete with local species We even have an official "egyptian geese eradication programme" here.

 

[Marts]

That confused me too! 1/128? Interesting shutter speeds those Swedes

 

[Marts]

I'd go more for 2.45, but you're close.

Good point. I hadn't allowed for the slope of the bank

 

[scanker]

School boy error.