Waxwing year?

[mex]

There are a number of waxwings reported already and a failed rowan crop in Scandinavia will hopefully see these beauties arrive en mass in the UK.


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[Tringa]

I'd heard that too.

Fingers crossed for a year like 2012/13. I was in Gairloch in November 2012 and for a few days there were about 100 on the rowans, hawthorns and cotoeasters.

Dave

 

[welshwizard645]

I was on the River Elwy in St Asaph then and there were plenty, had the wrong camera/lens combo with me (200 miles from home) but watching them was fantastic,

 

[mex]

I'd heard that too.

Fingers crossed for a year like 2012/13. I was in Gairloch in November 2012 and for a few days there were about 100 on the rowans, hawthorns and cotoeasters.

Dave

Apples make a very good substitute for cotoneaster berries

 

[jerry12953]

They seem to like the yellow domesticated variety of mountain ash/rowan as well. As seen in your local supermarket car park!

 

[southernsteve]

Here's hoping, we had a load in the middle of an industrial estate in east Grinstead a few years back, they love these sorts of places, and supermarkets, thanks to the plants they tend to use for landscaping.