Wednesday 21 November 2012

Look out, the Vikings have arrived!



Today (21/11/1201 at 1400hr) went to Fountains Road Kirkdale at Stanley road end to see waxwings, hoping to see the reported 100 or so.  Did I see waxwings?  You bet I did.  300 + ! The problem with counting them was they never stayed still long enough for me to work my way through the flock.
Start counting and 50 or so would detach themselves, so start again.  Then
100 plus fly in to spoil the next count.  By counting groups I did get a comfortable number of 300 plus for one brief moment.  Later I achieved a confident count of 200 at a moment when I could see they were not at the maximum number I had already seen in the tree.
My highlight of the year.
David Holland