During the hard winter of 2010, on 3rd December I had an adult Ross's Goose drop into the field behind the Bathing House ( the White front field of recent weeks), Howick, Northumberland with 40 Pinkfeet and 5 Barnacle Geese. They only stayed for a short spell before heading off south again. This Ross's Goose had also been seen at Low Newton Pool on 29th November.
Back then they were not accepted as wild birds so I did not write it up, however it was still recorded in Birds in Northumbria 2010, the annual report for the county in the section 'Birds of Unknown Origin'.
In that paragraph it is believed to be the same bird as that with Pinks at Doddington from 8th - 16th November which seems very plausible to me, but...
On checking the British Birds Report on Rare Birds 2023 Vol 117 Page 673 this bird is referred to as Bird N. See below -
You can also see then that Bird N was in Norfolk at Burnham Market from 24th November 2010 to 16th March 2011 returning back to Doddington on 28th March 2011..
So there is a discrepancy here. Our bird cant be two places at once? How can the same bird be in Norfolk from November but in Northumberland in December?
Two birds involved here... I might write it all up and submit it.
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