The Barnacle is Back

Horrendous day weatherwise, raining all the time.... Nipped out with R late arvo and spotted the barnacle goose again (seen two weeks ago), this time with some greylags in the field next to the house. Unerringly relaxed and tame, so hard to turn it into a wild traveller from Spitzbergen! Pensthorpe, more like. Along the river were a pair of Egyptian geese, with six goslings. Now, let's see how many of those will still be alive in a week or two....

A piebald rose between some loutish thorns: the barnacle.