waxwings in halifax town center

Everyone seemed to be talking about the waxwing invasion all week, and the texts had been coming thick and fast, only imprisoned by school I was powerless to try and track them down. However Saturday dawned with a text of some at the bottom of warley road. my mum was ready too late and therefore we missed those ones but after a drive around Steve's birds behind the fire station allowed us to track down some waxwings. I am very grateful to my mum for ferrying me around but here is what happened in picture order.

we arrived to find lots of waxwings hiding up trees , pretty much out of reach of my camera.

The birds that did come in range were flying really fats and so I couldn't pick them up, but then one came at just the right speed and height to get the shot I wanted of a waxwing in flight.

Steve suggested that we move back to allow the birds to feed at the berries that were near us. And sure enough they did and I was able to get some more, better photographs of them feeding on the berries.

There were some birds that perched themselves conveniently on top of trees so that i could get a great portrait photo of them.

Then a sparrowhawk flew over and all but a few of the waxwings left, so overall we saw lots of waxwings and had a great morning.

great, only my second ever waxwings and in better numbers than before and with photos to go with it too. Great stuff!!