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Young birds? Is it possible in March?


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Had a nice little 25-bird bag yesterday on a huge block of rape. Included were 2 very small and skinny birds with no white neck ring. Could they be 2019ers already? I know I saw half an eggshell on my driveway about a month ago but at home they are semi-domesticated urban birds not the wild stock I normally encounter out in the sticks.

As we all know, these two types of bird behave almost as a different species.

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11 minutes ago, motty said:

Don't see why they wouldn't have hatched some off. This afternoon I saw a few young Egyptian geese swimming about with their parents.

Egyptian geese are quite happy nesting in the height of the Winter , well before most species of wildfowl in the U K.

A few years ago we were game shooting in January and one of the woods we went in the dogs were picking up fairly well grown Egyptian goslings 

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1 minute ago, marsh man said:

Egyptian geese are quite happy nesting in the height of the Winter , well before most species of wildfowl in the U K.

A few years ago we were game shooting in January and one of the woods we went in the dogs were picking up fairly well grown Egyptian goslings 

Very interesting. I must admit, I haven't been looking for young ducks/geese about, but I was going through Bircham (near Burnham Market) and happened to notice them. There is normally a lot of greylags on the pond, but I saw none today.

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