Today (21/11/1201 at 1400hr) went to Fountains Road
Kirkdale at Stanley road end to see waxwings, hoping to see the reported 100 or
so. Did I see waxwings? You bet I did. 300 + ! The problem with counting them was
they never stayed still long enough for me to work my way through the flock.
Start counting and 50 or so would detach themselves, so
start again. Then
100 plus fly in to spoil the next count. By counting groups I did get a comfortable
number of 300 plus for one brief moment.
Later I achieved a confident count of 200 at a moment when I could see
they were not at the maximum number I had already seen in the tree.
My highlight of the year.
David Holland
2 comments:
I'm going back
Amazing! I was planning to go there tomorrow morning but heavy rain is forecast, hope to be there on Friday!
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