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Showing posts with label Bombycilla garrulus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bombycilla garrulus. Show all posts
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Monday, 13 December 2010
Werrington Waxwings
I warned you!
Below are some more photographs of some more Waxwings! These two were seen in Werrington, north of Peterborough. Yesterday there were up to 13 present, but today, just the two. The light wasn`t as good as yesterday and they are set against a dull grey sky (it had just stopped raining), but the birds still looked stunning and what makes these birds a little bit more special is the fact they are present in the village where I live!
Having a good scratch!
Below are some more photographs of some more Waxwings! These two were seen in Werrington, north of Peterborough. Yesterday there were up to 13 present, but today, just the two. The light wasn`t as good as yesterday and they are set against a dull grey sky (it had just stopped raining), but the birds still looked stunning and what makes these birds a little bit more special is the fact they are present in the village where I live!
Having a good scratch!
The two in a distant tree (obviously not talking to eachother!)
All digiscoped using Lumix FS15 and Kowa TSN-883 x30
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Waxwing at Langtoft
This lone Waxwing was seen at the village of Langtoft, just outside Peterborough and just over the border in Lincolnshire. There has been a few seen in this location over the past few weeks, but this is the first time I have been able to catch up with one.
I make no apologies for making a second posting about this stunning bird and if there are others found I will probably be doing another! I can really not tire of seeing them!
All digiscoped using Lumix FS15 and Kowa TSN-883 x30
I make no apologies for making a second posting about this stunning bird and if there are others found I will probably be doing another! I can really not tire of seeing them!
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Waxwings
It`s been a while coming, but finally I have seen a fairly large flock of Waxwings and not only that, but they were on my local patch of Peterborough. These birds were seen in a car park of a local business park on Friday the 26th and were still showing today, sometimes down to 20 yards! There were up to 55 birds in total, ranging from 1st winters to full adults.
The Waxwing is a species which has `eruption` years, that is to say that most years we can get 100 or so birds in the whole of the country, but on `eruption` years, several thousand can be present, this is one such year! They breed in northern Scandinavia and Siberia and come to
Britain when their food source is depleted. The favourite food is berries (indeed a Waxwing can eat 2 or 3 times its own bodyweight in a day), rowan, whitebeam and hawthorn, but they also eat cotoneaster, rose-hips and other winter fruits and seeds. On their breeding grounds they eat insects, especially mosquitoes and midges.
The Waxwing is slightly smaller than a Starling with a prominent crest, black bib, small black mask, a yellow tipped tail and a pattern on the wings of yellow and white, with the secondary flight feathers having a series of `spikes` which look like bright red wax, hence the name Waxwing.
A truly stunning bird!
The Waxwing is a species which has `eruption` years, that is to say that most years we can get 100 or so birds in the whole of the country, but on `eruption` years, several thousand can be present, this is one such year! They breed in northern Scandinavia and Siberia and come to
Britain when their food source is depleted. The favourite food is berries (indeed a Waxwing can eat 2 or 3 times its own bodyweight in a day), rowan, whitebeam and hawthorn, but they also eat cotoneaster, rose-hips and other winter fruits and seeds. On their breeding grounds they eat insects, especially mosquitoes and midges.
The Waxwing is slightly smaller than a Starling with a prominent crest, black bib, small black mask, a yellow tipped tail and a pattern on the wings of yellow and white, with the secondary flight feathers having a series of `spikes` which look like bright red wax, hence the name Waxwing.
A truly stunning bird!
All digiscoped using Lumix FS15 and Kowa TSN-883 X30
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