Left: Comparison of the differential source counts from mask d, mask 1017 (explained in Appendix A.3), and mask 50 (explained in Appendix A.2) with the results from the LoTSS Deep Fields (Mandal et al. 2021), and LoTSS-DR1 (Siewert 2021). The ending ‘radio’ refers to the application of the mask to the LoTSS-DR2 radio source catalogue, while the ending ‘value’ refers to the LoTSS-DR2 value-added catalogue. Downward pointing arrows indicate error-bars that extend outside of the plotted y-range. Right: Comparison of the differential source counts from mask d with the results from the LoTSS Deep Fields, TGSS (150 MHz; Intema et al. 2017), RACS (888 MHz; Hale et al. 2021), LoLSS-DR1 (54 MHz; de Gasperin et al. 2021), NVSS (1.4 GHz; Matthews et al. 2021), and SKADS (1400 MHz Wilman et al. 2008).