Watched these for half an hour or so, and took some pictures. With my limited experience of grey geese, on checking through the photos this evening, all 3 TAIGA BEANS and the 2 Pinkfeet look like adults, showing barring on the flanks and grooving on the neck. Hopefully some better pics will be had in the next few days.
As I set up my 'scope, all of the geese (most of which were sleeping/resting) took off in alarm as a buzzard and a sparrowhawk soared overhead- the 3 taigas flew off separately, and whilst the greylags and pinkfeet flew a couple of fields away, the Beans flew round the field in front of me, twice over my head, calling all the time, before landing again. They looked particularly long-winged and long-necked in flight, with Pinkfeet providing a direct comparison, short-necked and short-winged, compact (David Hopkins)
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