Goose or gander?

"Want some grass, Man?"

The goose did have a slightly stoned look about it as it eyed me up. I can't work out which are geese and which are ganders in the flock of 6 that live on the River Kent at Watercrook. There was a curmudgeonly old gander, who lived apart from the others, whom I did blip last year in a show of rough love with one of the three grey geese (might be this one). As reported here earlier in the year, the old gander somehow came to grief - perhaps falling victim to a fox. The geese are wary of dogs, but the old gander was less cautious.

As for yesterday's blip, I didn't need to lie flat out on the dewy grass, so it was only knees and elbows that got wet. The angle of slope of the hill works in my favour, I can look up slope towards the sun and catch the sparkle. I have to say it took me a while to realise the potential of Dallam Park for bokeh grass shots. I have often tried for something similar in our garden, but that does require full body immersion in the wet grass.

Otherwise an uneventful sort of day at the office.