When a (Lesser) Snow Goose plays hard to get

It all seemed perfectly straightforward beforehand – nip down to Marshside at lunchtime, catch up with Colin Bushell’s blue morph Lesser Snow Goose from the Hesketh Rd platform, nip home, pick up a pair of antlers (don’t ask) and be back in time for the Natural Alternatives Christmas Party at work.
Ho ho ho.
But the goose had other ideas and was nowhere to be seen for about 20 minutes as I ‘scoped the marsh from the platform at 1230.
Given the fact that even blue morphs have great big white heads, and are usual fairly obvious, it was all a bit disconcerting, until I suddenly got a glimpse of its snowy slaphead at the edge of one of the dips north of Wheatear Corner.
It was out of sight most of the time, either hidden by grazing Pinkies or down in the dip – it was time to change position.
I popped down to the corner and got marginally better views from the road as it preened amongst the Pinkies.
Relief.

Always good to see a Snow Goose, especially one that looks “okay” in a purely non-judgemental plastique sense of course.
Now for those antlers…