This is actually a relatively old picture I took, from Just Fur the Weekend 2019. In the hotel grounds, there was a pair of Canada Geese and a cluster of little yellow chicks just wandering around the place, content to keep their distance from any suiters that happened to enter the little garden area.

While many of you may be thinking it strange to see a Canada Goose in the UK, bear in mind that this is the nation that introduced the rabbit to Australia. Records suggest that they were introduced to the British Isles as early as the seventeenth century, added to King James II’s large collection of waterfowl. However, their first introduction to Europe came at the hands of the French, again as a gift to the monarch, this time being King Louis XIII. Given our more temperate and stable climate thanks to the Jet Stream, Canada Geeze in the Northern Europe have seen little need to migrate as their cousins in North America do, though short-distance migration has been observed in geese from Scandinavia, which often migrate to the Baltic states for warmth.

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