Geese

[Wrenna]

As it was such a nice day today, I popped down to the River Severn at Bewdley. I don't know much about water birds, but I'm learning more and more. I noticed a couple of "schools" of Canadian Geese, where two or three adults were escorting around thirty juveniles, and I know this behaviour is fairly typical of Canadian Geese.
However, I saw a small "family" comprised of two adult Canadian geese, and four domestic-looking geese. One goose had a white front, but it's back had markings somewhat like a canadian goose.
The white geese followed the canadians around like they belonged together. The canadians were acting like the white geese belonged to them. Is this normal behaviour?

[whaleomeloette]

they half grey goose will be half grey lag goose
you often see those knocking about with canada geese also
perfectly normal as far as im aware, they are quite sociable geese

[aeshna5]

The geese that aren't Canadas are domestic birds derived from Greylag. Away from nesting, when geese are highly territorial, they are sociable birds + different species will flock together. It's also not unusual for these birds to cross breed.