[jameslindsay]

All day today we have had a lone goose take up residence on our land and the strange thing is my 5 are getting on well with it. Usually if any animal that doesn't belong to me enters my land they go mental and chase it away. The first pic is the 5 of mine with the visitor. Number 2 is the new addition, No 3 -  my goslings now 8 weeks old and look at the size of them. No4 is the parents of my goslings, I think they are Chinese geese and the visitor looks very similair to them, any ideas?

[Newby]

The visitor is a Greylag

[jameslindsay]

Thank you

[northfifeduckling]

The visitor looks like  one of the migrating wild ones we get in spring and autumn. > thanks, Newby for giving us the name, I never knew what they are called< Maybe it was injured in spring and left behind...I admire them each time they are around, absolutely beautiful! 

[JulieS]

Lovely pictures James 

[jameslindsay]

Well the Greylag is still with us. As soon as I let my 5 out this morning my Roman Goose went straight on the river to join it and they have been together all day!! Now my lot are locked up he/she goes off on to the river and I guess will wait for its new pals in the morning. I still can't get my head around why it has not been terrorised off our land.

[doganjo]

Is it male or female?  Perhaps that makes a difference?

[jameslindsay]

I really don't know Annie, judging by size alone I would guess female though.

[doganjo]

That's probably why she's been accepted so readily.  A male would have been seen as a threat by both your males and females.