What’s good for the goose...
Greylag geese are on the rise. Every year brings more to the ponds and pools of the parish and they rarely fail to produce healthy, swaggering teams of youngsters. It would take a brave fox to confront a protective pair of adult geese and, once goslings are sufficiently well grown to survive a period of cold weather, they seem almost indestructible.
Under these favourable conditions, it’s no surprise that their numbers should continue to rise. Greylags were fairly scarce 20 years ago, but they have started to spread their wings.
Still branded as feral, greylags have a poor reputation in this part of the world. Many of these birds were reintroduced by wildfowlers across the UK after their numbers declined during
