On this day (January 18th 2011) I spent my lunch break photographing Waxwings!!
Talk about being in the right place at the right time! I was just leaving work for lunch when I got a text reporting 'Waxwings at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital' the previous day. Now for those of you who don't know where I work, my office is within 200m of where they were seen!
Walking to the car, what should fly overhead.... a small flock of Waxwings, eventually at least a dozen and quite obliging they were too! They were feeding on rose hips, quite astonishing to watch these giant fruits being forced down
Down it goes......
The digestion phase was carried out on the small trees nearby and quite a change to have one or two on the same 'level'.....
They were pretty close too!
A final burst was reserved for one bird nicely perche with a distant grassy bank behind. Gone are the distracting tangle of twigs and branches normally encountered....
Wonder if I'll ever tire of them?
