Thursday 24 November 2016

Flighty Waxwing



              Woke up this morning intent on going over to Adel Dam,
              but first needed to go and get some air in the car tyres when
              I had a brainwave to go to where the Waxwing had been seen
              or would it be a waste of time, so was glad when a message
              came through the grapevine that they were still there so off I
              headed to Stansfield Close and guess what, when I got there
              no sign of them, a nice old bloke told me they'd just gone and
              how he's been watching them for the last couple of days through
              house window and that they'd be back, I rang DS complaining
              they weren't there and had I got the right place, any way 5 mins
              later true to the old blokes words they turned up in the tree near
              to where my car was parked though I thought they were Starlings
              while in flight with the light being low but was well chuffed that
              they'd shown up, A few other birders then turned up with camera's
              and binoculars in hand and it was nice to meet them, SB, PD, DW,
              BH, and a fella from Huddersfield, Phil D was delivering pallets
              to Brighouse but made a detour to see the Waxwings and kept
              saying I've got to go but half hour later he was still their which
              was funny, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 GreatTits, 6 Blackbird, 10+ Starlings
              were also in the area.










5 comments:

Danny said...

Well Done catching up with the Waxwings Dave and getting some great pictures, just a little bit jealous!
Regards Nigel.

Dave Brotherton said...

Cheers Nigel

Brian Sumner . said...

Glad you got em Dave. One of the more obliging birds to photograph.

Bradshaw Rambler said...

Hey up Dave - beautiful pictures.
Glad you got them.

John

Dave Brotherton said...

Cheers lads, these lot weren't very obliging Brian they were very flighty, the first time I seen them about 5 years ago you could've touched them but these not a chance.