Unusual visitor to garden

I thnk these are Greylag's. Not at all rare, but funny to find a pair on the lawn earlier. By the time I'd grabbed the camera, swapped lenses and made as much noise as a herd of elephants they were disappearing. Just managed to grab a few shots of which this was the best. Snatched at 250mm in poor light so plenty of CA which I can't seem to remove in PP.

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Yep! Greylags... not often you see them flying and unusual that
they visited your garden.

Possibly a colour temp. problem as well as the lens.
What lens is it? It needs setting to something other
than auto.... possibly Cloudy.

It was my Pentax 18-250mm which is the only lens I have with any length. It was AWB so suspect it has got the camera a little confused as it was very dark with a patchy sky.

To be honest I'm suprised it came out at all. I didn't think about any of the settings - just wanted to capture them before they went! The camera was set up for a manual macro lens when I grabbed it.

I've adjusted the colour on the original a bit which helps a little, but still doesn't look quite right.

I don't know if you have Lightroom but it's possible to remove the purple fringing by going to 'Hue/Saturation' and desaturating purple and magenta, a bit drastic but it works.
I tried it with your photo but I don't know how to post photos here. It's actually a nice photo!
If you'd like to see it I could put it in the 'Gallery' temporarily.

I don't have Lightroom. I did try to alter the hue/saturation in Paintshop Pro, but don't really know enough to get the right settings. I'd love to see any efforts at improving it, thanks.

I've added my attempt on the Gallery, title...'Greylag Geese for Milamber'
if you'd like to see it

Now I can see what you have done I've had another go at altering the original. I don't think it's as good as yours, but it's an improvement.

Thanks again for your help.

Came back last night

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I think they've taken to you

Probably mistook my garden for a lake.....wettest drought ever.