I went out today hoping to
catch up with some more Waxwing. There
had been quite a few yesterday at various sites and my first port of call was
in Groby but there was no sign in the fairly heavy sleet. Yesterday there had been 100+ at the junction
of Fairway Road and Trueway Drive, Shepshed and when I arrived there was about
twenty-five at the top of a roadside willow but they soon departed as the rain
eased. I drove back around Fairway Drive
and found circa sixty in a tree. They
were dropping down to the ground to feed on berries that had fallen of the tree
and were extremely nervous in the inclement weather and eventually flew off
into the centre of the estate.
I called at Blackbrook
Reservoir where the weather took a turn for the worse again but I did manage to
see a drake Mandarin.
From Blackbrook I went to
Swithland Reservoir where there was still a first-winter male and a female
Velvet Scoter and a Peregrine in the tree on Buddon Wood.
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