Well we were fueling up at the local garage ready to head down to Pilling in Lancashire to look for the intermediate morph Snow Goose that had been present the last few days. Then I got a phonecall from Craig informing us that Darren had found a white morph Snow Goose in with the Pink-footed Geese on Newton Marsh, viewable from near Anthorn. This was excellent as it would safe us a fair trip to Lancashire and it would be a county tick!
We headed off towards Anthorn and Darren phoned me whist we were en-route. Darren gave me directions to where the bird was best viewed from and within fifteen minutes or so, we were there! Darren was still watching the bird and it was not long before I could see it! As can be seen by my very crappy pics the bird was fairly distant, not allowing very good photographic opportunities! However despite the distance good scope view could be obtained and all the salient features seen !! The bird was seen in flight on several occasions, but stayed in the same general area. 
There were several thousand Pink-footed Geese and huge numbers of Barnacle Geese on Newton Marsh.
Also in the area was a female scaup amongst the usual species present.
A nice surprise of a day all in all!
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