Birdwatch

Geese in the UK can be broadly split into two groups: the anser geese, otherwise known as 'grey geese', which include the greylags, white-fronts and pink-feet, and the branta geese, which are the Canadas, brents and barnacles.

At Pulborough, we have had a small group of white-fronted geese Anser albifrons (11 to be precise), while others have appeared in the Cuckmere valley and elsewhere.

There is normally a large flock of white-fronts that winter in the Rye Harbour-Dungeness area of the East Sussex-Kent border but few venture much further west in Sussex.

In recent days, there has also been a larger number of barnacle geese appearing than normal, plus a few bean geese, and there was a solitary pink-footed goose in the Arun valley too.

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette February 27