Waxwing from the bedroom window (1 Viewer)

[Ben M]

Around 3pm today I had a look out of the window with my bins and was pretty sure I saw a Waxwing in a distant tree with a group of Starlings. Ten seconds later it was gone. A single bird was at our local supermarket for over a week, but the last sighting was Monday, so there was a reasonable chance.

I scanned all the treetops I could see trying to relocate it, but without success. Just as I was about to give up, it lands on the lamp post right outside my bedroom window and hangs around for about 15 minutes. I guess it's my lucky day.

 

[The Raptor]

Good to know that there are Waxwings about, not seen any this year yet down here in Bristol. Great for you Ben to see this one, good pic.

Rod.

 

[JimMorris]

Why did I go to Preston when there was one an hour up the road from me.
Well done Ben

 

[Ben M]

Thanks guys.

Has me thinking about how often this kind of thing happens and goes unnoticed. I mean if I hadn't been working at home, and hadn't stopped to look out of the window at that time, well...

I was quite impressed by the pic... for a hand-held compact through my 10x bins, it's probably one of the best I've taken. Yesterday was my lucky day.

 

[bitterntwisted]

That's quite a spot out the window. I was thinking my Tawny Owl and Blackcap were quite impressive but that's amazing!

 

[ghostrider]

Thanks guys.

Has me thinking about how often this kind of thing happens and goes unnoticed. I mean if I hadn't been working at home, and hadn't stopped to look out of the window at that time, well...

I was quite impressed by the pic... for a hand-held compact through my 10x bins, it's probably one of the best I've taken. Yesterday was my lucky day.

Must happen all the time. I should have been working overtime one friday afternoon a couple of years ago. Something came up and had to go home. On arriving home there was a Sparrowhawk eating a pigeon in the back garden! After about 5 mins it flew off with it's catch. If i hadn't have come home i wouldn't have seen it.

 

[Ben M]

That's quite a spot out the window. I was thinking my Tawny Owl and Blackcap were quite impressive but that's amazing!

It's all relative though Graham... first time I saw Waxwings was a flock of ten in our Knaresborough garden - not high up in a tree, but low down feeding on berries along the side of our garage!

Next was the bird (probably the same bird as this) at our local Tesco a week or so ago. So this "garden bird" was great, but not a lifer or even a self-found lifer.

On the other hand, Tawny Owl is not only a patch bogey bird for me... I've never seen one anywhere. In fact, all owls seem to have eluded me, with the exception of a brief Little Owl sighting!

I've not seen a Blackcap since I started actively birding either, but it has been winter

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