Waxwing
The Waxwing is a plump bird which is slightly smaller than a starling. It is reddish-brown with a black throat, a small black mask round its eye, yellow and white in the wings, a yellow-tipped tail and a prominent crest.
Waxwings breed in the dense forests of northern Europe but they occur in varying numbers in the UK from October to March. In some years they can occur in large numbers (known as irruptions) when the population in the breeding areas gets too big for the food available.
The first UK arrivals each winter are usually seen on the east coast from Scotland to East Anglia but birds then move inland in search of food. They can be found in parks and gardens and even busy public places, typically where there are berry-bearing trees and bushes such as rowan, hawthorn, cotoneaster and rose.
Waxwings make an easily recognisable high-pitched trilling sound like a bell.
Date: 28th December 2008
Location: Folkestone, Kent
Waxwings breed in the dense forests of northern Europe but they occur in varying numbers in the UK from October to March. In some years they can occur in large numbers (known as irruptions) when the population in the breeding areas gets too big for the food available.
The first UK arrivals each winter are usually seen on the east coast from Scotland to East Anglia but birds then move inland in search of food. They can be found in parks and gardens and even busy public places, typically where there are berry-bearing trees and bushes such as rowan, hawthorn, cotoneaster and rose.
Waxwings make an easily recognisable high-pitched trilling sound like a bell.
Date: 28th December 2008
Location: Folkestone, Kent
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