Back to shades of grey

Another day, another species of goose. This dapper bird is a Brent Goose and was happily hanging out on the water by the Baleshare causeway with a couple of mates. Whilst they do regularly winter here in the Hebrides, they do not do so in the numbers that winter in the South of England. Pagham Harbour, for examples hosts thousands.
That said they are a subtly different subspecies referred to as dark-bellied whilst this bird is an example of the pale-bellied form. Not surprisingly really when they breed in Greenland and Svalbard.
For one who abhors the spelling color, for example, this is one where I have to admit that the Americans, who call it a Brant, have got it correct and our version, Brent, was corrupted to benefit  wrongly form classical roots.