Saturday
May092020
Red-breasted Goose - records

2012 one at Penberi Reservoir on 14 June (photographed by Mike Young-Powell). Presumably an escaped bird, perhaps the same one seen in Montgomeryshire later in the year.

2012 one at Penberi Reservoir on 14 June (photographed by Mike Young-Powell). Presumably an escaped bird, perhaps the same one seen in Montgomeryshire later in the year.
Branta ruficollis
One Milford Haven, 18 Jan 1935 (B.Birds XXXVIII, 311)
R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society
Vagrant
This attractive goose is widely kept in captivity, wandering escapes obscuring the occurrence of wild birds. One at Milford Haven on 18 January 1935 (Lockley etal. 1949) is included by Witherby et. al. (1940) in a list of presumed genuine vagrants.